Last Friday, lawyers representing two government officials petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear arguments over whether former a 2002 state decision to layoff only union personnel violated those employee’s constitutional rights.
Back in June 2013, you may recall that the Second Circuit ruled that such layoffs did violate the right of association. I’ve
Just days after the UAW suffered a defeat in trying to organize off-track betting workers at .jpg)
Foxwoods, the UAW has decided to withdraw its petition to represent a group of about 80-120 slot technicians. The decision also came just hours before a hearing was to be held on the subject. The withdrawal allows the UAW
It’s been a little while since we last checked in with the unionization efforts at Foxwoods. The .jpg)
appeal process of the election of UAW has begun its slow arduous process so don’t expect to hear much on this for weeks or months at a time.
But in the meantime, various other groups have been vying
As I noted nearly a month ago, the historic battle for recognition by UAW at Foxwoods Casino was likely to be a long drawn-out affair. As with any boxing match, it can be foolish to to draw any conclusions by what happens when the first few punches are thrown. 
The UAW landed a soft
USA Today reports that the United Auto Workers (who are dominating the headlines this week with their strike and settlement with General Motors) filed formal petition papers with the National Labor Relations Board this morning to form a union of approximately 3000 dealers at Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut.
Conventional wisdom is that unions do
Two years ago, the new Marriott Downtown Hartford opened, with great fanfare, next to the new Connecticut Convention Center. (The Center, incidentally, is a terrific facility if you have not visited and the hotel is pretty snazzy too.) Over the next year, the fanfare was marked by labor pickets involving both facilities. Then Marriott requested