Las Vegas Construction Workers Win Safety Demands

I picked this up from the AFL-CIO Blog. Even though this is a private project, it is so big ($9.2 billion) that it is larger than most public works projects.

The workers in Las Vegas working on a project at the MGM Grand's City Walk walked off the unsafe job site and won safety concessions. I think this is one of the best uses of strikes to get your point across that I have seen. The project six workers have died on the site in the last 18 months. The demands that they won include the following items:

• An immediate work site 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.

I hope that these changes make the site safer. The blog post about the strike result is here.

An earlier post gives more background information on this story.