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RJ EDITORIAL: Culinary doesn't want new jobs? 8-6-07
But now the plan has hit an unexpected roadblock from an opponent Las Vegans might think would be four-square behind the job-creating development -- the Culinary union.
The union has
filed a
lawsuit
arguing that REI Neon
has not provided
evidence that it controls
or has agreements in place to purchase all the land in question.
The union wants a court to overturn all zone changes and general plan amendments
that they city granted REI Neon so it could move forward with the development, which would be located near the corner of
Lee Haney, a spokesman for REI Neon, claims the company has all the land under control.
"Every one of the parcels we have under option. We have eight figures invested. We have it under firm control."
In response to the
lawsuit, city officials last week were reviewing documents to make sure Mr. Haney is correct.
*** OK. Good for them.
The union maintains about 20 percent of the land in question is not under REI Neon control at this point.
*** Should be EASY to prove.
At the very least, the lawsuit could delay the project and increase its costs.
*** RJ BS
WHY would it increase the cost?
While REI Neon has filed a motion to dismiss the matter, the case won't be heard for at least another month.
So what exactly is the Culinary union up to?
*** Stand by – HERE COMES THE RJ ANTI-UNION BS.
Tellingly, union officials wouldn't comment for a Saturday Review-Journal story on the issue by David McGrath Schwartz. But the lawsuit notes that the Culinary's headquarters is within a half mile of the proposed development and that union staff and members regularly use a street that could be closed as part of the new project. Besides, the Culinary lawsuit claims, it is important that "a project is not speculative but rather is real."
But if you believe the Culinary's lame explanation for this legal action, you probably expect the tooth fairy to leave you a brand new Susan B. Anthony dollar under your pillow tonight.
In fact, the Culinary union cares about one thing and one thing only: expanding its membership and maintaining its power base.
*** MORE RJ BS
Creating well-paying jobs isn't enough if those jobs don't generate more union dues -- witness the Culinary's war with nonunion Station Casinos and its recent effort to scuttle a much-needed Station project near withering
*** war?
They are trying to unionize Stations.
Wonder why they call it a “war”.
And, indeed, once you cut through all the union pap, what's left? A source tells Mr. McGrath that the Culinary would drop the lawsuit if REI Neon agrees to let employees at future casinos on the site organize a union via the "card check" system rather than a secret election.
*** THE OLD – UNNAMED “SOURCE” PLOY.
THAT is the one BuSh used on WMD.
If the source is correct, this lawsuit is nothing more than a thinly veiled shake-down, the
type of extortion regularly perpetrated by thugs and mobsters.
*** YOU Might have missed the –
“If the source is correct,”
Whether or not REI Neon wants to run a union shop or not is up to them. But if the Culinary union has indeed used the taxpayer-funded judicial system to file a frivolous lawsuit designed simply to pressure REI Neon's management on the matter, a judge should not only toss this case out immediately, he should sanction the Culinary for such brazen nonsense.
*** They left out REWARD THEM IS THEY ARE CORRECT, BECAUSE IT WILL SAVE TAXPAYERS MONEY
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