We need to beat swords into plowshares.

We need to beat swords into plowshares.

Monday, November 22, 2010

None of the casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry are union

None of the casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry are union with the exception of some dealers at Foxwoods who have the most atrocious contract assuring them of the right to live in poverty. The UAW "negotiated" a three-tier contract for these dealers.


I have dozens of Job Application Forms sitting in front of me right now from over 40 casinos in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan requiring employees to sign a statement as part of their terms of "at-will" employment that if they engage in union organizing activity of any kind they will be terminated from employment. This is in direct violation of any kind of state, federal or international labor standards and norms and is completely contrary to the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Indian Nations are being used as fronts for organized crime which owns just about every single slot machine and table game in the United States in the Indian Gaming Industry. There is not one single "Compact" that has been written which includes the protection of casino workers' rights.


Let me know what Tribes are not anti-union and I will go talk to the workers to see if they want to join our union.
In fact, the National Indian Gaming Association and its state affiliates have hired a bunch of thugs, Altegrity/USIS, (<http://peureport.blogspot.com/2009/08/altegrity-usis-history-symbolizes.html >; < http://www.altegrity.com/ > to try to thwart our union organizing efforts.


We made every effort to try to get workers' right written into one of the most recent "Compacts" creating the Gun Lake Casino south of Grand Rapids, Michigan... I personally requested every single union to join our efforts in getting workers' rights protected in this "Compact;" not one single union would lift its finger even though they are fully aware that it is children who suffer from the poverty legislatively imposed on casino workers.


This "casino" money has corrupted every single tribe operating these casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry.

The Minnesota Indian Gaming Association's lobbyists contribute tens of millions of dollars to elect politicians who will enforce the anti-worker, poverty imposing "Compacts" yet this outfit refuses to spend one dime trying to elect Native American Indians to the Minnesota state legislature... Minnesota, with one of the largest Native American populations in the country does not have one single Native American Indian sitting in the state legislature and right now the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association is fighting our redistricting proposal that would enable a Native American Indian to be elected to congress and two Native Americans to be elected to the state legislature (just two out of over two-hundred state legislators).


The Fertitta's have been hired by the Gun Lake Band to manage their new casino. Anyone can do a "google" to find out what kind of filthy sleaze this family is, and comes from--- the violence and murder, the organized stealing and prostitution, the drug dealing and their "non-Native" casino operations recently were cited for the largest string of labor violations in U.S. history, and they were run out of Missouri after they tried to bribe none other than the state's Attorney General and other public officials.


I have in front of me right now, Tribal Court Orders from dozens of these casinos banning me from their premises for engaging in union organizing.


I have not been to all 350 casinos in the Indian Gaming Industry; I have been to about 15% of them and have yet to find one single Tribe that is sympathetic to unions in their casinos.

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