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:: Friday, July 18, 2008 ::

Utility, labor union clash - By JOHN G. EDWARDS, Las Vegas Review - Journal, NV
For the first time in 18 years, a union strike could threaten the reliability of power as air conditioners are roaring around the valley.

Nobody wants that, representatives of Nevada Power Co. and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers No. 396 say.

Yet the utility and the union have been in stalled contract negotiations for months. The union's previous contract expired in February.

The company has refused to budge on plans to change a pension program that could reduce benefits for union workers up to 70 percent, said Jesse Newman, union senior assistant business manager.

Newman said Nevada Power negotiators are saying the utility faces a bleak financial future if changes aren't made in pension benefits.

"It's like a car," management representatives say, according to Newman. "Company representatives say: 'You don't change the oil after the car blows up. You change the oil before the car blows up.'"

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