The plaintiffs are Danny Thompson, former leader of the Nevada AFL-CIO, and Thomas Morley, the former political director of Laborers Local 872. Morley is officially now retired but does consultancy work for Local 872.<\/p>\n
They want the court to declare the petition invalid, block its placement on the ballot, and call a halt to the signature-gathering campaign.<\/p>\n
Suing educators trying to put schools first sets a terrible tone for an organization claiming to now care about our community,<\/strong>\u201d said Alexander Marks, a spokesperson for the NSEA and Schools over Stadiums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cEducators overcome challenges every day. Schools over Stadiums is confident our referendum will move forward, and we will be gathering signatures to fix Nevada\u2019s misguided priorities in the coming weeks,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u2018F\u2019 is for Funding<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe A\u2019s proposed move to Las Vegas would be MLB\u2019s first club relocation since 2005 when the Montreal Expos became the Washington Nationals. But the A\u2019s will have to wait as their ballpark isn’t expected to be completed until 2028.<\/p>\n
Nevada consistently ranks near the bottom in national education rankings. It’s the only state to receive an \u201cF\u201d grade for education funding from the Education Law Center. Statewide, there is estimated to be a shortage of 28K teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The effort to bring a $1.5 billion Oakland A\u2019s baseball stadium to the Las Vegas Strip on the site of The Tropicana Casino has sparked a proxy war between trade unions. A lawsuit filed in Carson City, Nev., on Thursday by two individuals with strong ties to construction unions seeks to derail a ballot initiative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":291999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81886,60,82963,61],"tags":[88174,88175,88172,88173,82145],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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