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CityCenter Strike Ends

By Trent Ogle

Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | midnight

A day-long strike outside the MGM Mirage's CityCenter ended Tuesday afternoon when officials representing union construction workers reached an agreement with Perini Building Co. concerning improved safety measures. Protestors had picketed outside the $9.2 billion project in reaction to the deaths of six workers at the CityCenter project and 11 deaths total on Strip construction sites in the last year and a half. "The winners are the workers," said Steve Ross, head of the Southern Nevada Building and Construction Trades Council.

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  1. By heatherrabunclark
    6/4/08 at 9:30 a.m.
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    Whatever.................do you think this sh*t will end, my brother is gone, his son is without a father, nobody can even touch these billion dollar as*holes. They don't give a rat's ass. I just pray for our Union workers safety, that is all the comfort I can take in. There is no other...

  2. By SPFPAUNIONYES
    6/12/08 at 6:13 p.m.
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    Memorial Site to Bring Awareness
    to The Safety Issues at
    MGM Mirage
    City Center Project
    and all other Las Vegas Construction Sites!

    http://www.spfpalocal7777.org/SAFETYFIRS...

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