The bartenders, nurses, airports, casinos and conventions that help Nevada’s economy power up in Las Vegas on Tuesday called for a “Right to Return” ordinance requiring companies to hire workers who were fired or fired because of the crisis in coronavirus.
“Each of those workers must have the right to return to their previous jobs if the company reimburses,” the union coalition Save Our Jobs said in a statement. “They lost their jobs through no fault of their own.”
Save Our Jobs represents about 87,000 workers across the state and the ordinance they are asking the Clark County Commission to place on the Sept. 1 agenda would ensure employers do not hire new workers before asking a former employee to return. to go.
While the language is still being finalized, the coalition said it would cover both unions and workers without unions.
“Workers have helped build Nevada into the world’s tourist and entertainment capital,” the coalition statement said. “They are caring for our sick, injured and elderly residents. All the workers make this city one of the best places to live and raise a family. ”
The coalition includes Bartenders Union Local 165, Culinary Workers Union Local 226, IATSE Local 720, National Nurses United, Operating Engineers Local 501, SEIU 1107, Teamsters Local 986, Teamsters Local 631, United Auto Workers Local 3555 and others.
More than 20 million jobs were lost nationwide after the pandemic hit and the move by the coalition comes as the recovery from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression turned out to be flagging.
Nevada was one of the most severely affected states in the country, as two of the five jobs in the state were in the entertainment, retail and entertainment sectors, Business Insider reported.
The U.S. economy added 1.76 million jobs in July. But that was a steep decline from the 4.8 million jobs restored in June, according to the latest batch of Federal Bureau of Labor federal statistics.
And although revelers returned to the casinos in June two months after they were shut down by COVID-19 and the neon lights on the famed Las Vegas Strip went dark, many of the lanes did not return. And experts have said it could take years for the economies of Las Vegas and Nevada to recover.
Back in June, the Wall Street Journal reported that the pandemic “hit Nevada’s workers harder than any other U.S. state” and posed a potential “existential threat to the Las Vegas-based business model of bringing people together for gambling, entertainment and conventions. “
“We think consumers will be quite reluctant to travel very far, to stay in hotels [or] to participate in gaming, ”until there is a fax,” Troy Walters, a senior economist with IHS Markit, told the Journal.
Nevada, as of Tuesday afternoon, had reported 61,967 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 1,077 deaths, according to the latest figures from NBC News.
But the 25 deaths reported Tuesday in Nevada were a new height for the state. Although the number of new cases in the last two weeks has decreased by 26 percent from the two weeks before, it is still much higher than at the beginning of June when the state averaged a little more than 100 new cases per day.
ProPublica, the independent research news campaign, warned in a piece published Tuesday that when it comes to the coronavirus “what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas.” The reopened casinos are “a likely hotbed for the spread of the novel coronavirus.” And the tourists who return home infected as difficult to track down because “there is no national system in place for contact tracking.”
Nationally, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 was about 5.5 million and the death toll was close to 172,000 Tuesday morning, according to NBC News numbers. The US, which leads the world in both categories, has accounted for about a quarter of the 22 million cases and 776,000 deaths worldwide.
In the last seven days, India (6,540) and Brazil (6,784) have registered more coronavirus deaths than the US, which reported 6,440, according to figures from NBC News.
Most of the new cases and deaths in the U.S. have been in the Southern and Sun Belt states that reopened at the instigation of the Trump administration, as the numbers of new COVID-19 cases began to climb.
Currently, though, the state with the highest rate of infection Louisiana, which has nearly 3,000 cases per 100,000 population, has public records.
Gov. John Bel Edwards, a Democrat, won a legal battle on Monday when a federal judge refused to stop the governor’s order to stop the spread of the virus by blocking bars. Ten bar owners had accused the state of staying open.
“The case revolves around a classic question about who decides: If between democratically accountable officials and a federal court, who decides what measures will best protect Louisians in a global pandemic?” US District Judge Martin Feldman wrote. “The answer is state officials.”
Florida has one of the highest infection rates in the country, with more than 2,600 confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants. The Sunshine State was on track to join California as the only state with more than 600,000 confirmed cases. And as of Tuesday morning, Florida had reported 9,673 deaths.
- Rebekah Jones, the former head of Florida’s public information portal who says she was approached by Gov. Ron DeSantis has been fired for refusing to censor the stupid data, has a new number crunching job. Jones announced that they are collaborating with the FinMango lawyer group to follow coronavirus cases “in every K-12 school district” in the American NBC News reported Monday that the federal government does not monitor COBID-19 outbreaks in schools and that some states do not report them publicly. This makes it harder for public health experts to come up with solutions to prevent COVID-19 from spreading.
- While most victims of pandemics were as early as their prime, the World Health Organization warned that more and more young people were being infected. “The epidemic is changing,” Takeshi Kasai, a WHO regional director, said in a recent briefing. “People in their 20s, 30s and 40s are increasingly driving the spread.” They, in turn, pose a great danger to the most vulnerable groups because “many are unaware that they are infected,” Kasai said. “This increases the risk of spillovers for the more vulnerable.”
- Notre Dame became the second nationally known university in two days to pull its students out of classes after an outbreak of coronavirus on campus. President Rev. John Jenkins ordered that all classes for students go online for the next two weeks, after an off-campus party resulted in dozens of students becoming infected. “If these steps are not successful, we should send students home as we did last spring,” Jenkins warned. At least the Irish still have a shot at completing the semester on campus. The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill sent all of its students home on Monday for the remainder of the fall semester after reporting 135 new COVID-19 cases and four clusters within a week of starting person classes.
- The world got a glimpse of some shocking images of Wuhan, China, the city where the pandemic has apparently begun – a massive pool party at a local water park. Thousands of bathers bubbled in inflatable rubber things and barely wearing masks were squeezed into a swimming pool where they dug into electronic music. Wuhan’s super-strict blockade ended in April But the majority of the country’s reported 4,634 reported coronavirus deaths were in Wuhan.
- Da fans probably won’t see “Da Bears” play football at Soldier Field this season. Concerned about the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the Chicago Bears pulled the plug to allow spectators to consult with Chicago health officials. “The Bears and the City of Chicago have agreed that health metrics show it is not the right time to welcome fans back to Soldier Field,” the teams said in a statement. The Bears are not the first NFL team to ban fans from some of their games. The Tennessee Titans do the same. And earlier, the New York Jets and Giants announced that no fans will be allowed “until circumstances change” at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where both teams play. Teams like Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, the Dallas Cowboys and Atlanta Falcons said they will play before people with reduced capacity with social distance measures in place. The NFL makes mask wearing mandatory for anyone attending a pro football game.
