Nevada Newsmakers

Host: Sam Shad
Co-Host: Ray Hagar

Guests:
Danny Thompson, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO
Pundits:
Bob Crowell, Mayor of Carson City, Nevada
Joe Guild, Attorney
Susan Fisher, President, Fisher Consulting


"The Bricklayers Union in Las Vegas, which represents bricklayers, tile setters, and marble workers, is 80 percent unemployed. Unemployment in the building trades in Reno is at a high of 75 percent. We didn’t have those kinds of numbers during the Great Depression. It wasn’t that bad. "

- Danny Thompson Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, drilling down to the sector numbers versus the generally accepted 13% unemployment level statewide in Nevada.