Management and Union Organizers Butting Heads Over Organizing at Navajo Fire Rock Casino

Union organizers claim the Navajo Fire Rock Casino management is violating the Navajo Preference in Employment Act by discouraging workers from unionizing, misinforming employees about their rights to unionize and taking efforts to punish those in favor of unionizing. Management states that the organizers are falsifying information and reports of incidents. The Culinary Workers Union apparently is concentrating on Fire Rock because none of the other Indian casinos are owned by tribes that guarantee these rights.  Get the full story in the Navajo Times here.

-CMD