Kent Wong Quotations

There is a lot of enthusiasm and these unions are excited about their new direction. Whether this group of unions will be able to stop the hemorrhaging of jobs is very much up in the air.

Many companies go to great means to try to intimidate or advise their workers against supporting the union,

Nevada and especially Las Vegas has a very strong tourism-based economy and the tourism industry is highly unionized in Las Vegas. As that sector of the economy continues to grow the union density has kept pace.

I think it's rather ironic these are the accusations management is making, when in fact union density is quite low nationally, ... If the law was so weighted in favor of unions, then we wouldn't have the situation we face today with a significant decline in union density across the country.

There's no shortage of issues for unions to organize around in high-tech--job insecurity, the threat of outsourcing. It's not an issue of whether there'd be responsiveness.

It would be difficult to enforce because there's a lot of gray areas in relation to people's disposition to supporting unions or not, ... Let's say such a law is enacted. No. 1, how could you really prove whether someone is a salt or not? How could you ensure the company is not unfairly discriminating against people because of their views?