(6,000) Las Vegas Construction Workers Win Safety Demands (6 workers killed in 18 months)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AFL-CIO News Blog

by Mike Hall

Some 6,000 construction workers are back on the job today at MGM Mirage’s CityCenter in Las Vegas, after the project’s general contractor agreed to the workers’ demands to improve safety on a job site where six workers have been killed in the past 18 months.

The workers, members of the unions of the Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council (SNBCTC), walked off the construction site for a $9.2 billion hotel, casino, condominium, retail and entertainment complex Monday night, when talks with Perini Building Co. to improve safety broke down.

Steve Ross, the building council’s executive secretary-treasurer says the agreement is

…quite significant, not only for union construction workers but for construction workers in general. We want them all to be safe….We want this to resonate up and down Las Vegas Boulevard. The important thing is for these men and women to come to work in the morning and regardless of what shift they’re working, go home and be with their families.

Perini agreed to a three-point job safety outline that includes:

* An immediate worksite safety assessment by the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department’s (BCTD’s) Center for Construction Research and Training (CPWR).

* Conducting and paying for on-site safety training for all workers administered by the center.

* Full job site access to union and safety officials.



Read more: http://blog.aflcio.org/2008/06/04/las-vegas-construction-workers-win-safety-demands/

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[ForrestGump]

1. I know a few of the workers on this site and

two have told me that more people died on the job than is reported. I believe one of these people told me, a few months ago, that the death toll so far was 14 and there's whispering of one of the deaths being a killing (whether that's true or not could go either way in a town where the real-life skulduggery is matched only by the apparent need of people on the street to inhabit a landscape made up from bogus imaginings).