B   M   W   E
JOURNAL
ONLINE VERSION VOLUME 107 - NUMBER 3 - APRIL 1998
Frontier Jackpot
More than 1,500 union workers, their families and community allies rallied, sang and marched down Las Vegas' famed strip January 31 to escort the first shift of Frontier Hotel employees back to work, after their six-and-a-half-year strike. Five hundred fifty workers--Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees, Teamsters, Operating Engineers and Carpenters--struck the hotel in 1991 when management eliminated pension plans, slashed wages, cut health benefits and gutted job security protections. Not one worker crossed the 24-hour-a-day picket line. When the hotel was sold, the new owner agreed to a contract with improvements in each of the disputed areas. "I think anybody who stays out six-and-a-half years has a lot of intestinal fortitude," said new owner Phillip Ruffin. "We think these people will make good employees [who] can bring the hotel back to what it once was."

Work in Progress February 3, 1998.

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