Nevada construction labor unions are leading a renewed push for public support to bring a film studio project to Southern Nevada by promoting another pass at failed legislation during an upcoming special session.

Vince Saavedra, executive secretary-treasurer of the Southern Nevada Building Trades Unions, said the 21-union group effort is meant to highlight the labor potential of constructing a film studio campus and potential other developments around it.

“These are real lives and real jobs that are at stake here,” Saavedra said in an interview Tuesday. “It’s not just giving out tax credits to billionaires. These are real Nevada working families who need the work right now.”

The announcement of a newly formed political action committee representing those Nevada trade unions comes a day

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