Unions Lose in Effort to Organize at Foxwoods. Are Unions Needed Anymore?

Do Unions provide any benefit anymore? Why is it that people aren't enamored of the unions like they were in the 40's and 50's? Is is because they are tired of the sneaky ways unions use to get around having to WORK to organize?

Card check could be a last straw for many. The secret ballot prevailed. Unions, if you want to organize, you have to do a BETTER job of selling your benefits. What DO you have to offer unions?


Foxwoods Resort Casino management prevailed Wednesday in a crucial vote to have Local 371 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union represent bartenders, bar porters and beverage servers. In secret ballots conducted during the day and the evening, employees voted 207 to 133 against representation by the union. (that's over 60% AGAINST the union)

NLRB Say Union Vote is Valid For Foxwoods. Where is the weak UNITE HERE! Union in CA?

It seems like the UAW have more will power than the Unite Here! Union. They have fought to have their vote validated, which is now the case with the recent NLRB decision. The Unite Here union claimed that the recent compacts which Californians foolishly passed would hurt their efforts to unionize the casinos. Yet, what efforts have they made? Have we even heard from them again?

Laziness and weakness at organizing, means they will be WEAK AND LAZY when in comes to negotiating. Maybe the casino employees should ask the UAW to stand up for them.

Here is the UNITE HERE contact info. Call them and ask for their help.

Western States Regional Joint Board

Christina Vazquez

International Vice President/Secretary-Treasurer

920 S. Alvarado Street

Los Angeles, California 90006

Tel. 213-385-0271

Fax 213-385-2615


The National Labor Relations Board released a long-awaited decision Thursday, certifying a union election held at Foxwoods Resort Casino in which a majority of table-games dealers voted in favor of representation by the United Auto Workers union.

With the decision, the UAW can now request that the casino, which is owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, bargain a contract on behalf of nearly 3,000 dealers.
But the tribe, as it has throughout every stage of the unionization process, again vowed Thursday to fight the union all the way to the U.S. Court of Appeals, a course that would mean it will refuse to negotiate with the UAW.

Dealers continued to call on their employer Thursday to negotiate with the union and recognize the results of the election, in which 1,289 of 2,141 votes cast were in favor of unionization.
”We voted, we won, we've been certified,” said Steve Peloso, a dealer at Foxwoods, in a prepared statement issued by the UAW. “It's way past time for Foxwoods to come to the table and work with us on a fair contract.” ........ read the story HERE

YOU TUBE joins the debate on expanded gaming Against PECHANGA

UPDATE II: A new video from a man who was banished from Pechanga and whose sisters are members, but they left him out will be coming soon, but here's his first attempt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV7oOLyDWCc

I'll try to find the pictures of the guards keeping him from the rez where his father is buried.

UPDATE: This video is back up on YOUTUBE. It details the disenrollment of the Hunter family:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=197D9A5DC9BFD5C1

Here are a couple of videos from YouTube that are anti expanded gaming:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8AB1Z90HDc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-t39Aak-JE&feature=related

"UNION is CORRUPT" says Pechanga's Macarro

Them's fighting words. I think that all union members should stay away from Pechanga, Patronize another business.

Macarro would probably be given a little weight for his opinion. At least under the "it takes one to know one" category.

"The corrupt HERE union has cost Californians billions in new revenue, and millions for the Temecula Valley," Pechanga Tribal Chairman Mark Macarro said in a statement released Friday afternoon. "We are deeply disappointed by these political games."

http://www.pechanga-nsn.gov/page?pageId=440