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Stoneburner Was Effective Advocate2 March 2005RENO, Nevada -- As reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal: "Washoe County is poorer for the loss of workers rights advocate Tom Stoneburner, who died Monday at his home in Palomino Valley. Everyone who was interested in the welfare of workers knew his name and likely came into intimate contact with him at least once. They all know him as a tireless and effective activist. "Few people in the community have had such a recognized impact on the workplace in Northern Nevada. "In fact, state legislators so admired him and his work for workplace reforms and stricter government oversight to protect the rights of workers that they adjourned a session this week in his honor. "For more than a decade, 'Stoney' spent the hours away from his own hotel-casino security guard job showing others how to speak up for themselves. And when the task was too weighty, he went to bat for them, serving as president of United Plant Guard Workers of America Local 1010 and organizing the state's first union for casino security personnel at Circus Circus and then Reno Hilton..." |