{"id":180602,"date":"2017-03-03T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/03\/well-its-a-start-2\/"},"modified":"2017-03-03T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T00:01:00","slug":"well-its-a-start-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/03\/well-its-a-start-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, It&#8217;s a Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 360px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pHBsIta.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/pHBsIta.jpg\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Republican Contributor, Casino Mogul, and Lawn Gnome Sheldon Adelson<\/i><\/div>\n<p>For the first time ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/feb\/24\/sheldon-adelson-las-vegas-sands-corp-labor-union-contract?\">employees at one of Sheldon Adelson&#8217;s casinos have joined a union<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">When Sheldon Adelson\u2019s casino empire opened a new branch in 2009 on the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel mill in Pennsylvania, the interior designers played up the link to faded industrial glory.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The gaming floor drips with lights the color of liquified iron ore. There\u2019s a Steelworks Buffet &amp; Grill, and the late-night lounge is called Molten.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But there was another bit of Bethlehem Steel\u2019s legacy that the casino company might not have counted on: labor unions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The ratification of a new union contract by security guards at the Sands Bethlehem Casino on Wednesday night marked the first time that a workforce within Adelson\u2019s global empire, the Las Vegas Sands Corp, had successfully unionized, despite years of efforts by the Culinary Workers\u2019 union and others in Las Vegas.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Security employees at Sands Bethlehem voted 70-6 in favor of a contract that gives 146 workers an 8% wage increase, and that sets up a seniority system and grievance process. The vote was the result of five years of work by organizers and a year of negotiating between the Sands Corp and the Security Police Fire Professionals of America.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Adelson is one of the most vociferous union opponents in the US, and I hope that this leads to more of the same for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Contributor, Casino Mogul, and Lawn Gnome Sheldon Adelson For the first time ever, employees at one of Sheldon Adelson&#8217;s casinos have joined a union: When Sheldon Adelson\u2019s casino empire opened a new branch in 2009 on the grounds of the old Bethlehem Steel mill in Pennsylvania, the interior designers played up the link to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[465,442],"class_list":["post-180602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-labor","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}