Las Vegas workers rally, Union workers rally for right to return to jobs

Las Vegas workers rally, Union workers rally for right to return to jobs. Labor union members across several industries in Nevada are fighting for the right to return to work. The Save Our Jobs union coalition gathered Tuesday morning to rally for the placement of a Right to Return ordinance on the Clark County Commission’s Sept. 1 agenda. The ordinance would require employers to offer workers the right to return to their jobs after being laid off or furloughed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, once the business reopens and operations resume. Most local Culinary union contracts say employers must recall a laid-off worker by seniority before hiring anyone new when a full-time position in his or her job classification returns. This right to be recalled typically lasts six months or a year from the last day the employee worked, depending on the contract, according to the Culinary Local 226 website. Armando Rivera, a shop steward for Bartenders Local 165, said he attended Tuesday’s rally to fight to extend a worker’s right to return past the one-year mark and extend health care benefits to the end of the year. Rivera is a former employee at HMSHost and one of the 940 employees set to be laid off by the food service provider at McCarran International Airport this October. He said his benefits are scheduled to expire Oct. 31, and his right to return through his contract would expire a year after his last day of work. “It is extremely difficult. It’s just living in fear every day,” he said. “We’re just here fighting for our rights to keep our health care, keep our jobs.” Gloria Rodriguez, a member of the Culinary union and a former banquet server, said she attended Tuesday’s rally for her father, Rogelio Solis, a union official and Bellagio employee. Her father was unable to attend after contracting COVID-19 and has been at University Medical Center hospital for the past five weeks, she said. “My father … is usually at every single rally,” Rodriquez said. “(I’m here) because he can’t be, and because this is my job and all these people are my coworkers that are going to lose their jobs.”

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