Ruben Garcia In The News

Nevada Current
Station Casinos, which has fought to keep the Culinary union out of its multiple Southern Nevada neighborhood properties for over a decade—one of just a few major holdouts in the Las Vegas hospitality industry—will, again, be called to court to defend their labor practices next month.
Washington Monthly
Last week, Republicans in Congress successfully stopped legislation designed to reform federal elections and protect the right to vote.
N.P.R.
Virginia has one of the lowest union membership rates of any state. In 2020, only 4.4% of Virginia workers were union members, fifth lowest in the nation. But unions have a long history in the commonwealth, flourishing around the turn of the 20th century in industrial Richmond and the coalfields of the Southwest before union density began to fall in the 1950s.
Las Vegas Review Journal
It took months of research, development, clinical trials, and manufacturing and logistic challenges. But the next hurdle in containing COVID-19’s spread will be convincing a large swath of the U.S. population to get vaccinated.
Nevada Current
A coalition of labor unions is pushing Clark County to introduce an ordinance requiring businesses to rehire furloughed or laid-off employees based on seniority — regardless of whether those workers are represented by a union.
Huffington Post
Tim Baer has no idea when he’ll return to work ― or whether he can keep his family safe and healthy when he does.
Time
Raven Sterrett, a 27-year-old dental hygienist in Portland, Oregon, hasn’t gone to work in months. Governor Kate Brown suspended non-urgent medical procedures in mid-March, part of an effort to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus. But Brown reversed that order on May 1, and now Sterrett’s boss asked her to return to work on May 11.
Las Vegas Review Journal
Public union contracts covering more than 18,000 hospital workers, police officers and other government employees have fallen victim to Nevada’s coronavirus outbreak.