A push to organize MGM Mirage security guards has turned ugly, with the union’s lead organizer comparing casino executives to terrorists and threatening to bring homeless people and prostitutes to the picket line in order to make things unpleasant for the company. Those who know the organizer, Steve Maritas, don't seem too surprised by his tactics. Apparently he was convicted in San Diego of stalking his former girlfriend, and says he learned a lot about the union business from his father, a former president of a 30,000-member carpenters district council in New York City who was indicted on racketeering charges.
Read the whole story in the Las Vegas Sun, including how Maritas admits his "street tactics" backfired when he put a picture of Osama bin Laden next to a picture of Mandalay Bay President Bill Hornbuckle on the union’s Web site. “They’re both terrorists,” he told the Sun.
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