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Teamsters Local 995 General Membership Newsletter June 29, 2007 Mike Magnani Secretary-Treasurer 300 Shadow Lane- Las Vegas, NV 89106 Tel. (702) 385-0995 Fax (702) 385-4410 www.teamsters995.com Important Dates: Shop Steward Training Thursday, September 6, 2007 9:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. General Membership Tuesday, September 25, 2007 10:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Inside This Issue: Secretary-Treasurer’s Report Scholarships Available Union News from Around the Country LOCAL UNION EXECUTIVE BOARD (L to R) Jim Dunbar-Trustee, Tony Sasso-Vice President, Mike Magnani-Secretary-Treasurer, Helen Green-President, Ed Rudd-Trustee, Lucy Corral-Recording Secretary, Brian Vonderohe-Trustee

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Teamsters Local 995General Membership Newsletter

June 29, 2007Mike Magnani Secretary-Treasurer300 Shadow Lane- Las Vegas, NV 89106Tel. (702) 385-0995 Fax (702) 385-4410

www.teamsters995.com

Important Dates:

Shop Steward TrainingThursday, September 6, 20079:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.

General MembershipTuesday, September 25, 200710:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Inside This Issue:

Secretary-Treasurer’sReport

ScholarshipsAvailable

Union News fromAround the Country

LOCAL UNION EXECUTIVE BOARD(L to R)

Jim Dunbar-Trustee, Tony Sasso-Vice President, MikeMagnani-Secretary-Treasurer, Helen Green-President, EdRudd-Trustee, Lucy Corral-Recording Secretary, BrianVonderohe-Trustee

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Scholarships Available:Applications for the following scholarships, complete with eligibility and all other requirements may bepicked up at the Local Union offices.

The James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund is sponsoring an essay contest and will be awardingfifty students $1,000.00 scholarships. Each Applicant must:1. Be the son or daughter or grandchild of an eligible Teamster member.2. Be enrolled full time in an undergraduate college, university or community college program, or a techni-

cal or vocational program.3. Be 23 years of age or younger by September 30, 2007.4. Forward the completed application and essay to the James R. Hoffa Memorial Scholarship Fund

offices by September 30, 2007. Extensions will not be granted.5. Pick up the applications and a complete set of rules at the Local Union offices.

Arnold/Jones/EvansScholarship sponsored by the Nevada State ALF/CIO. The Arnold/Jones/EvansScholarship Fund will be awarding three $3,000.00 scholarships to successful applicants who will be attend-ing an accredited public or private university, community college, vocational or technical school anywhere inthe United States. Some of the requirements for this scholarship include:1. Applicant must be a natural or legally adopted child of an active or retired member in good standing of

any Local Union affiliated with the Nevada State AFL/CIO (that’s us).2. Applicants must be a graduating high school senior when making application.3. Applicants must have a 2.0 grade point average during their last full year of school.4. All applications must be accompanied by a written essay of 1,000 words minimum. The essay topic is, “Is

TASC (Tax and Spending Controls) good for Nevada and good for Taxpayers? What would the conse-quences be if TASC passed in Nevada?”

5. Completed applications must be mailed by registered or certified mail only to the Nevada State ALF/CIOoffices, postmarked by July 16, 2007 to be eligible for consideration.

6. Applications and a complete set of rules may be picked up at the Local Union offices.

***“He is great who can do what he wishes, he is wise who wishes to do what he can.”

—August Iffland—***

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Secretary-Treasurer’s Report: by Mike Magnani

Our local union members employed at the New Frontier Hotel have recently been notifiedthat their employment will be terminated on July 16, 2007. While a skeleton staff mayremain for a short period of time beyond July 16, to answer phones or last minute clean up,we are advised that for all practical purposes the last day of work for our Teamster mem-bers employed at the New Frontier will be July 16, 2007. Another Las Vegas landmark willbite the dust in the name of progress.

While most of our employers contact the local union offices when Teamster job vacanciesoccur, some don’t. I’d like to call on our Teamster members at every facility represented byour local union to contact our local union offices when you become aware that a vacancy inyour work place exists and your employer intends to fill that vacancy. Working together wemay be able to locate employment for all of our members whose families lives will be turnedupside down because of this closure.

Many of these Frontier Hotel workers have been employed at that facility for the better portion, if not all, of their work-ing lives. Searching for new employment will be a challenge that most of them have not experienced in many years. Lets alldo what we can to help these Teamsters locate new employment in the Teamsters Union. In doing so, these members will beable to preserve their Teamster Pensions and group health plans which is so important in today’s society.

As of the writing of this document, a tentative agreement has been reached for our local union members employedat the Las Vegas Country Club and the Union is now awaiting the employers drafting of the tentative agreements sothat our members at that facility can be called together to vote that package.

Our local union has received a last, best and final offer from Harrah’s Entertainment covering our membersemployed at the Harrah’s Entertainment Call Center. As of the writing of this document, the local union has draft-ed the list of tentative agreements as well as the employers last, best and final proposals and forwarded those tothe Harrah’s Entertainment Management for review and execution so we can present that package to our membersemployed at that facility in a contract ratification setting.

Between November 30, 2007 and November 30, 2008, our local union will be faced with thirty-three contract expirationscovering approximately eighty percent of our local union’s membership. That many contract expirations in that short periodof time will definitely require a great deal of time and effort on the part of our local union’s office staff.

Our local union members lead by our shop stewards will play a major roll in these negotiations. Maintaining unity anda good work ethic in our respective work places will do wonders for the negotiations process. It all starts with afreeloader free workplace. Freeloaders come to our union shops because of the wage and benefit levels to includethe right to grieve disparate treatment. They blame any and everything for the reason they don’t or won’t join theunion from religion to the union didn’t help save my dad’s job in 1927 (don’t know what union), if these freeloadersreally don’t like the union. The truth is, there are several non-union shops in Nevada. They should go to one of those.Then, there are those who would argue my religion won’t let me join the union. But their religion has no problem withthem working in a union shop.

Nobody likes freeloaders. Even employers recognize that freeloaders are nothing more than freeloaders. They hold every-one around them back. They want to complain about the union, the union shop stewards, the way a grievance was handled,the way contract negotiations were handled, but let them get suspended or terminated from their work place and watch.They’ll make it to the union hall faster than any union member ever has to ask for another hand-out.

Freeloaders play an even more devastating role by hurting everyone they work with when it comes to contract nego-tiations. It’s kind of like being in one of those sleek racing row boats, eight row stations, a freeloader boards, choos-es not to row with the rest, then complains because the rest of the crew couldn’t pull off the win.

No Freeloaders are needed in our Union shops!***

“Pleasure is a reciprocal; no one feels it who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please.”

Lord Chesterfield***

Mike Magnani,Secretary-Treasurer

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Doing The Right Thing - Always!By Helen Green - President / Business Representative

Being a Union representative whether it is a Shop Steward or Business Agent is not an easyjob. And sometimes, it is downright difficult. Not because the Steward, on the job, or theBusiness Representative through the grievance procedure is unable to resolve all issues cor-rectly, they are,but because, in some cases, the right way to bring a matter to its conclusion may not alwaysbe popular amongst the bargaining unit.

When the Union can help a group or class prevail on issues such as management performingbargaining unit work or subcontracting, or when the Union can have an individual’s grievanceon unfair discipline removed from a members file, everybody in the class or group, or theindividual whose discipline was voided and awarded back pay - as a result of the Union’s griev-ance procedure - is happy.

However, when a member files a grievance on an issue such as an unfair termination and prevails through the Union’sgrievance procedure with back pay and reinstatement with seniority rights, other members in the department willcomplain to the Steward or Business Representative because the reinstated employee has seniority over others inthe department, or the employee was disliked by several of their co-workers.

Local 995 wants all of its members to know that it does not look at any case with a jaundice eye. And in resolvinggrievances, the officers and staff at Local 995 will always represent its members fairly, in good faith, and withoutdiscrimination, whether or not the outcome is popular. Not only isit the Union’s duty to do so, but keep in mind, that someday, the individual seeking representation by the Union maybe you.

***Always remember – you are worth all the time in the world

***

EFCA – Employee Free Choice ActBy Bill Burgos, Business Representative – 385-0995, ext. 209

The Employee Free Choice Act is bipartisan legislation that will be considered in the House and Senate in the com-ing weeks. This landmark legislation would restore workers’ freedom to join together in unions to improve their livesby bargaining for better wages, benefits and working conditions.

Workers union recognized with majority signing cards. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) would certify theunion as the bargaining representative if a majority of workers in the unit sign cards authorizing the union as theirbargaining representative.

Federal mediation and arbitration for first contracts. A common tactic of anti-worker employers is to stall andavoid negotiating a first contract, EFCA would provide that if workers and the employer are unable to reach anagreement in 90 days, either party could refer the dispute to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service(FMCS). If FMCS is unable to help reach an agreement after 30 days, the dispute would be referred to arbitration.The arbitrator’s decision would be binding for two years.

Strong penalties for violations. EFCA would provide the following penalties against employers who violate the rightsof workers.

Your Senators and the White House need to hear from you. It’s time to strengthen the protections for Americanworkers who wish to exercise their right to form a union. Call and tell your Senators to vote YES on EFCA, and totell the President to stand with the middle class, not big corporate interests. Thank you and have a great summer.

Helen Green,President

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What Can You Do As a Member to Strengthen the Union?By Debra Miller, Business Representative – 385-0995, ext. 208

Bring your workplace problem to the Union Steward first. Employers may tell you they have an open door. Theydon’t tell you that there usually is a trap door on the floor. Many members have lost on issues when they go tothe boss first. It is human nature to think you can work things out; maybe even get a deal. But members go intothat room and don’t know the contract rights. Then they go to the Union Steward after the damage is done.

Write up a grievance with the Steward. Many of our contracts say that the member must write the grievance. Butyou need the proper language to write it up. Go to your Union Steward immediately and ask for help. Don’t waituntil you have forgotten the details or the grievance is no longer timely. Make that grievance into a winner.

Don’t spread rumors. Nothing spreads faster than rumors and many of them are not started by our mem-bers. If you have questions about the contract, negotiations, an arbitration, a work rule change, or some-thing else you heard through the grapevine, ask your Union Steward of Officer. But don’t repeat what youaren’t sure of. Rumors can be the most destructive force in the workplace, because they tend to divide us.And that works toward the employer’s advantage.

Don’t badmouth the Union. Every time the Union holds a training session, new Officers come out to the seminarswith almost identical responses. They tell us that they had no idea how hard, the Officer they defeated, had workedduring his/her term in office. The best advice that can be offered is work with others in your Union, not againstthem. That does not mean there is no room for discussion or disagreement. But simple negativism about your Unionwill eventually destroy its effectiveness. Employers will see divisiveness as a weakness and will act accordingly.

Get involved. The Union is you. This month, decide to do something to strengthen the Union. Go to a meeting.Welcome a new hire. Volunteer to get a mailing out. Register to vote and then register your family, friends,and other members. Come down to the Union Hall after work and just ask if there is anything you can do.

Wear your Union button. Advertise that you are a Union member and proud of it. Let your family, friendsand neighbors know. And let the boss know it too!

***“Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty”

—Woodrow Wilson—***

Right to WorkBy Beverly J. Williams, Business Representative – 385-0995, ext. 207

As you are all aware, Nevada a Right to Work State, but I cannot imagine being without a Union, providedthere is a Union to join.

I was a single parent and I cannot express enough the importance of belonging to a Union. I had greatbenefits, and still do, good pay and Union representation. We were a solid group, although we got on eachothers nerves every now and then. We quickly got our act together as Union brothers and sisters.

I was harassed by a manager that did not quite like me, but that was her problem. I do believe if I did nothave Union representation, I probably would not have lasted 19 years with my previous employer. If youknow of any of your co-workers who are not paying dues, please encourage them to become dues payingUnion members. We need their support.

***Even in the rockiest of times, there is always hope

***

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Organizing to Secure Our FutureBy Salvador Carrillo, Organizer – 385-0995, ext. 215

Our Local was asked to assist on a large scale organizing blitz at the Los Angeles and Long Beach Ports. TheIBT is organizing thousands of port drivers that are being virtually exploited by the ports and the shippingand transportation companies. Bill Burgos, Mark Ranger and I spent a few days assisting this effort thatalready produced the desired effects. Changes in the rules and regulations, effective January 1 of next yearwill permit our Union to organize thousands of drivers.

On our Local’s Organizing front, we successfully prevailed in two NLRB elections. First we had another jointcampaign with the Operating Engineers Local 501 and we were able to organize the maintenance engineers,painters, gardeners and shuttle drivers at Cancun Resort, a hotel/time share property at the south end ofthe strip and we also won an election with zero votes against the Union at Durango Hills Golf Club.Negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement are under way at Cancun Resort and will start soonfor Durango Hills Golf Club. We continue our organizing efforts with the airport car rental shuttle bus driv-ers. Mark and I hope to get either Card Check recognition or enough support to win an NLRB election in thenext few months. We will also continue pursuing other organizing leads as necessary.

Remember that in six or seven months, we will be starting the process or re-negotiations of all of the stripcontracts that expire next April. The whole process will require a lot of work and effort by everybodyinvolved. Lines of communication among fellow members, their shop stewards, the negotiations committeemembers and the union need to be firmly established. The employers need to know that we are very wellorganized and prepared to face tough negotiations. Nothing emboldens the employers more than to know thatthere is no unity among the employees and that there is no support for the negotiating team or that differ-ent groups want different things and do not support each other. Every time a contract gets re-negotiated,it is tougher than the previous time and this time will not be an exception.

Comfort Care Dental GroupComfort Care Dental Group remains the only all union dental office in Las Vegas. The entire staff is union.They are members of Teamsters Local 995. As members of Teamsters Local 995 their dedicated staff ishere to serve our dental needs. Teamsters Local 995 members are offered a special plan that is designed toexpand their dental benefits by covering, in full, any dental charges covered by the dental plan and do notexceed the annual maximum coverage. Comfort Care Dental Group has agreed to waive Teamsters Local 995member co-pays and members portion of the 80% - 20% deductibles. This increases our members annual ben-efit level significantly. All Teamsters Local 995 members are given special consideration at Comfort CareDental.

The Comfort Care Dental offices are located at 803 South Seventh Street, Office hours are Monday 8:00a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Tuesday through Friday 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Phone(702) 384-4721.

***“Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath” —Solon—

***

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There Is Power In A UnionBy Mark Ranger, Business Representative, 385-0995, ext. 214

I would like to share this with all of our members. This was written by Billy Bragg

There is power in a factory, power in the landPower in the hands of a workerBut it all amounts to nothing if together we don’t standThere is power in a union

Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers bloodThe mistakes of the bosses we must pay forFrom the cities and the farmlands to trenches full of mudWar has always been the boss’ way

The union forever defending our rightsDown with the blackleg all workers uniteWith our brothers and sisters from many far off landsThere is power in a union

Now I long for the morning that they realize Brutality and unjust laws cannot defeat usBut who’ll defend the workers who cannot organizeWhen the bosses send their lackeys out to cheat us?

Money speaks for money, the devil for his ownWho comes to speak for the skin and bones?What a comfort to the widow, a light to the childThere is power in a union

The union forever defending our rightsDown with the blackleg, all workers uniteWith our brothers and sisters together we will standThere is power in a union

Belief Is All You NeedA man was lost while driving through the country. As he tried to read a map, he accidentally drove off theroad into a ditch. Though he wasn’t injured, his car was stuck deep in the mud. So the man walked to a near-by farm to ask for help.

“Warwick can get you out of that ditch,” said the farmer, pointing to an old mule standing in a field. The manlooked at the haggardly mule and looked at the farmer who just stood there repeating, “Yep, old Warwickcan do the job.” The man figured he had nothing to lose. The two men and Warwick made their way back tothe ditch.

The farmer hitched the mule to the car. With a snap of the reins he shouted, “Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted!Pull, Warwick!” And the mule pulled the car from the ditch with very little effort.

The man was amazed. He thanked the farmer, patted the mule and asked, “Why did you call out all of thoseother names before you called Warwick?”

The farmer grinned and said, “Old Warwick is just about blind. As long as he believes he’s part of a team, hedoesn’t mind pulling.”

Adapted from Some Folks Feel the Rain…Others just Get Wet by James W. Moore

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Union News From Around the CountryHundreds of union members and activists lobbied their congressional representatives during Presidents Dayrecess in support of Employee Free Choice Act, reported labor federation. Events were held in more than 100cities at news conferences, worker roundtables, rallies and other gatherings across the country to press needfor stronger laws to protect workers’ rights to form unions. In West Virginia, for example, more than 175 unionmembers, state legislators and members of the West Virginia Council of Churches, American Friends ServiceCommittee and West Virginians for Affordable Health Care rallied at state capitol. They voiced support for res-olution adopted by state House of Delegates calling on Congress to pass Free Choice Act. AFL-CIO estimatedmore than 130 members of Congress were contacted by bill supporters during week-long break.

Labor said President Bush’s health proposals “only pretends to address our nation’s health care crisis” and couldmake matters worse for working families. “The President’s proposal to make workers pay taxes on health bene-fits in order to pay for a new standard deduction will prompt employers to shift more costs onto workers oreliminate coverage altogether,” federation head Sweeney warned. According to AFL-CIO analysis, younger andhealthier workers under President’s plan would have more incentives to buy low-cost, bare-bones plans, leadingto higher costs for older and less healthy workers who stay in more comprehensive coverage. Those who remainin more costly comprehensive plans would take “a double hit, since arbitrary threshold means they’ll pay more intaxes”. At same time, many uninsured workers have too little income to buy health coverage on their own whichmeans they won’t benefit from tax deduction because they owe little or no taxes.”

Alliance for Retired Americans called on President Bush to reversed his threat to veto bipartisan House-passedbill to require secretary of Health and Human Services to negotiate lower drug prices on behalf of Medicarebeneficiaries. Current Medicare prescription drug program bars federal government from using its enormousbuying power to demand lower prices from drug makers. “Bush should do more than merely promise not to vetothis bill—he should be a true leader and encourage the Senate to pass similar legislation,” said ARAPresident George Kourpias. Kourpias reported that ARA activists across country have sent in “thousands of peti-tions” to members of Congress, demanding that their elected officials lower cost of Medicare prescriptiondrugs. He said Americans now pay world’s highest drug prices and 2006 elections brought “clear majorities” inHouse and Senate who believe Medicare should use its bulk purchasing power to lower drug costs.

Union officials expressed dismay over decision by The Hershey Co. to move production to Mexico. Company,whose name has been synonymous with U.S. candy making for more than a century, announced last month that itwould scale back its U.S. workforce by 1,500 jobs and force some plants to close. Dennis Bomberger, businessmanager for Chocolate Workers Local 464, which represents 2,500 workers at Hershey plants in Hershey andReading, Pa., said actual job cuts would have to be deeper to achieve net work-force reduction of 1,500. “They’regoing to gain some jobs in Mexico…so there’s going to be a higher number lost” in United States and Canada,Bomberger said. “Whenever they move something out of the country, that’s not good news for any company fromthe workers’ standpoint.” Hershey said its three-year blueprint would reduce number of production lines by morethan one-third while saving company as much as $190 million a year.

Rail unions called for stronger workplace protections for railroad employees in recent testimony before HouseCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and HazardousMaterials. They urged reauthorization of the Federal Rail Safety Program which was last reauthorized in 1994.AFL-CIO Transportation Trades Department President Edward Wytkind told committee that railroads haveblocked program’s reauthorization for more than 10 years. Both Wytkind and Teamsters Rail ConferencePresident Edward W. Rodzwicz highlighted issues of fatigue, whistleblower protections, and inadequate staffing.Wytkind charged rail industry has used its political clout “to limit enforcement activities and oversight, and inreality, face little consequence for safety infractions.” Fines are “little more than nuisances to multi-billion dol-lar rail companies,” he said.

In decision that could set off wave of union organizing at native American casinos, U.S. Court of Appeals forthe District of Columbia Circuit ruled Feb. 9 that National Labor Relations Act applies to tribal casinos.Reaffirming 2004 National Labor Relations decision, appeals court said imposing federal labor law on casinos“does not impair” sovereignty of tribal lands. Case involved San Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Indians, whichowns and operates casino on its reservation in San Bernardino County, Calif. Writing for the appeals court, Judge

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Janice Rogers Brown found that “operation of a casino is not a traditional attribute of self-government” and thatthe vast majority of casino’s employees and customers are not tribal members. She rejected San Manuel’s argu-ment that the tribe falls within NLRA’s exclusion for states and political subdivisions.

Colorado unions held emergency legislative strategy session after Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter stunned his unionsupporters by vetoing worker-friendly legislation. Ritter’s veto of a bill that would have removed obstacles thatunions face in creating agency-fee shops rocked labor and galvanized unions, said state American Federation ofTeachers President David Sanger. With Democrats controlling state legislature and governor’s office, Ritter’sveto was sobering reminder that a Democratic majority doesn’t guarantee greater clout for labor, officials saidas they discussed legislative goals for remainder of session.

As number of union auto workers declined, leaked memo from Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing NorthAmerica Inc. said manufacturer will look to state manufacturing wages rather than unionized auto industry tohold down future wages and wage increases for its U.S. workers. Memo was printed in Detroit Free Press andexposed impact on nonunion workers when highly unionized industry sectors lose jobs and can no longer influencewage levels. According to leaked document, Toyota’s “strategy moving forward is to base our hourly wages moreclosely with the state manufacturing wages where each plant is located, and not tie ourselves so closely to theU.S. auto industry or other competitors.” Toyota officials acknowledged document’s authenticity. “Our challengewill be how to educate team members and managers about our condition, so that they can understand and acceptchange,” memo stated.

New report revealed that fewer than half of all working households participated in employer-sponsored retire-ment savings plan in 2004, and fewer than a third of all working households owned an individual retirementaccount. Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued report Jan. 29 which showed that participation in allemployer-sponsored retirement plans has remained relatively stable at roughly half of the workforce population.“With the trend away from defined benefit plans to defined contribution plans, workers now bear much of theresponsibility of preparing for retirement,” report said. In 1980, 30.1 million workers participated in 148,096defined benefit plans and nearly 18.9 million workers were in 340,805 defined contribution plans. By 2003, trendhad reversed with roughly 21.3 million workers in 47,036 defined benefit plans and more than 51.8 million work-ers in 652,976 defined contribution plans, CRS said.

United Food and Commercial Workers Union dismissed retail giant Wal-Mart’s call for universal healthcare asPR-driven public “posturing.” “Wal-Mart is the largest corporation that provides the least healthcare to employ-ees,” United Food and Commercial Workers Union President Joseph Hansen said in statement. “But suddenly thecompany has become a proponent of healthcare for everyone — apparently, though, as long as Wal-Mart doesn’thave to deal with the healthcare needs of its own employees.” Wal-Mart officials recently issued joint announce-ment with Service Employees Union President Andrew Stern and Communications Workers of America headLarry Cohen that current U.S. employer-based healthcare system should be revamped in favor of a universalhealthcare system. “Wal-Mart is changing its public posture, but it also needs to change its actual corporatepractices (by) taking responsibility for its own employees,” Hansen said.

Meatpacking plant in Memphis, Tenn., did not violate federal labor law by discharging 32 workers who partic-ipated in one-day work stoppage, National Labor Relations Board held 2-1 in recent decision. United Food andCommercial Workers Local 515 represents workers at Fineberg’s meat processing plant in Memphis which wasinvolved in case. Board majority of Chairman Battista and Member Schaumber overturned administrative lawjudge’s findings that work stoppage constituted protected concerted activity under federal labor law and thatFineberg Packing Co. condoned workers’ conduct, thereby prohibiting later discipline for it. Board majority saidNLRB general counsel conceded that work stoppage violated the bargaining contract and was unprotected, andthere is lack of clear and convincing evidence that the plant manager “intended to condone the employees’ con-tinuation” of strike after he gave them choice of returning to work or leaving.

***“Character is a by-product; it is produced in the great manufacture of daily duty.’” — Woodrow Wilson —

***

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Withdrawal CardsShould you be planning to leave the jurisdiction of our Local Union for any reason, to include a promotion toa supervisory position, moving out of state, starting your own business, etc., please contact the Local Unionto obtain a withdrawal card. Just call (702) 385-0995, ext. 7 or come by the Local Union offices to obtainthat card. It is quick and easy to obtain and fill out.

Member Addresses and Phone NumbersWe are calling on our Shop Stewards to assist the Local Union in its efforts to obtain current memberaddresses and phone numbers. Accurate information is important when it comes to reaching our members,particularly when a workplace and, at times, a personal crisis hits a union family member. Should you hearthat a member has changed residence or phone number, please have them fill out the following form and faxit back to 385-4410 or hand deliver to 300 Shadow Lane, Las Vegas.————————————————————————————————————————————————————————Please Print Clearly

Name:______________________________________ Home Phone:_________________________

Address:____________________________________ Cell Phone:__________________________

City:_______________________________________ State:_______________ Zip:__________

Would you like us to mail Insurance and Pension address change forms to you? Yes_____ No_____

Sign:_______________________________________ Date:______________________________————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

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Lewis Pistoria Jr., Las VegasCountry Club

Excalibur Laborer/Gardeners:Rafael Rodriguez, Sariang Somy,Chamba Mendoza, David Sanchez

Las Vegas Hilton (L to R): Fabian Luna, John Porter, GarySchmidt, Louis Taylor, Ed Hamamura, Mingo Lujan, MikeDency, Ernesto Senda

Domingo Najara,Las Vegas Country Club

Mark Lewis, Nick Diaz, John Stenowitz, Sam Stewart,Kenny Grayson—Riviera Hotel Warehouse/Receiving

Jose Villanueva & Manny Gurrola:Plaza Hotel Receivers

Ed Rudd, Luxor HotelWarehouseman/Receiver & LocalUnion Trustee

Luxor Valet Parking Attendants:Charles Combado, Jeff Heisler,David Bax

Excalibur Laborer-Gardeners:Susan Tribett & Kathy Avant(Shop Steward)

Peggy Caro, ClaimsAdjuster, TeachersTrust

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PROFESSIONAL, CLERICALAND MISCELLANEOUS

EMPLOYEESLOCAL UNION 995

AFFILIATED WITHTHE INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD

OF TEAMSTERS

300 SHADOW LANELAS VEGAS, NEVADA 89106

Non-Profit Org.U.S. POSTAGE

PAIDLAS VEGAS, NVPERMIT NO. 686

Brian Ferris,PlanetHollywoodReceiving

Belinda Morris,Receptionist,Zenith Admin.

ChuckCameron,Receiver,Plaza Hotel

GarySchmidt,Labor, LV Hilton

Lila Darakjian,Cust. Service,SouthwestAdministrators

Sdhari Justice,Receptionist,Comfort CareDental

PatriciaRosenberg,Shop Steward,Zenith Admin.

Tara Kimbrew,Claims Adjuster,TeachersTrust

Rowena Pascua,Receptionist,TeachersTrust

Barry Ritter,Hertz Rent ACar U.S.A.

Luxor PBX Operator CandaceCrowder & Luxor Lead PBXOperator Susan Gugino

Alana Shappell, B&E Clerk,& Terry Ivie, Zenith Admin.

Luxor Front Desk Clerks:Rachelle Jackson, Julie Cutts,Vangie Murphy (Shop Steward)

LV HiltonWindowWashers: GeorgeDugan & FrankStatterfield

Diane Denmon,AssistantSupervisor &Kathleen Ryan,Records,SouthwestAdmin.