Author's Keywords: labor organizing, labor law, unions, labor, social movements	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: American Political Science Association URL: http://www.apsanet.org
Citation: URL: http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61001_index.html Direct Link: HTML Code:

Benz, Dorothee. "Labor's Ace in the Hole: Casino Organizing in Las Vegas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61001_index.html>

Benz, D. , 2004-09-02 "Labor's Ace in the Hole: Casino Organizing in Las Vegas" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61001_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The fortunes of organized labor in the United States are on the decline. Union density has been steadily falling for decades, and even a concerted effort by innovative unions and new leadership at the AFL-CIO since 1995 has failed to reverse the losses. Amidst this generally gloomy picture, casino workers in Las Vegas have provided a striking counter-example. Since 1989, over than 30,000 of them have joined the Culinary Union (HERE Local 226), more than doubling the union’s membership and bringing union density on the famous Las Vegas Strip to 90%. What accounts for their success in an otherwise bleak landscape for labor? Three sets of factors emerge that explain the basis of the Culinary Union’s growth: an unusual labor market, in which labor shortages have helped create high union density and high density in turn has generated new leverage; an industry whose growth strategy has been based exclusively on expansion through new casinos, making it vulnerable to disruption; and a dense web of political relationships and processes that the union has engaged to increase its power vis-à-vis the industry. Together these unique structural conditions have given the Culinary Union an unusual amount of leverage. They have used that leverage to sidestep the disadvantages that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election process has created for workers trying to organize, and have instituted an alternative method for establishing union recognition. With the pitfalls of labor law significantly neutralized, the union has been able to organize on scale to a degree not possible in the rest of the labor movement.

Organizing Workers in the Space Between Unions: Union-Centric Labor Revitalization and the Role of Community-Based Organizations

The Historical Origins of Outsourcing and Union Crisis within the US Auto Industry: Organized Labor’s Self-Determination?