Update from the Bargaining Table

Foxwoods Beverage Negotiation Update

April 17, 2012

Local 371 UFCW

Union Bargaining Update

It has been a busy nine months since we were together for our contract proposal meeting. We have been having regular bargaining sessions with management, and your bargaining committee has been working hard to fight for your interests. We have reached a tentative agreement on 33 articles out of 55 different union proposals. The remaining 22 proposals have been discussed at length, and we are nearing agreement on many of those. There are a few Articles, however, where we still remain very far apart from management. Some of those articles are listed below with the parties’ current proposals.

Foxwoods Interim Stewards and Your Right to Representation

Your Right to Representation

In addition to negotiations, Local 371 and interim stewards have been working diligently behind the scenes to solve grievances on a daily basis and represent your coworkers in Board of Review hearings. This takes up a great deal of the interim stewards’ personal time, and we want to thank them for volunteering for this challenging task. As a reminder, your rights regarding union representation are spelled out below:

Federal Judge Orders CT Hotel rehire staff that supported Union

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2011 SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS

It gives us great pleasure to announce the winners of the Robert Burke Petronella Memorial Scholarship Awards for 2011.

Why Young Workers Want a Good Old- Fashioned Pension

Letter to Editor Waterbury Republican

Fight in Wisconsin is a Fight for America as We Know It.

The fight in Wisconsin isn’t about the cost of pensions and health care for public sector workers. It is about further destroying the political voice ofthe working class, and eliminating any meaningful challenges to big money in American politics.

JUDGE UPHOLDS UNION VICTORY AT FOXWOODS

JUDGE UPHOLDS UNION VICTORY AT FOXWOODS

Judge Raymond Green of the National Labor Relations Board upheld an election in which Bartenders, Beverage Servers, Lounge Hosts and Bar Porters voted to be represented by UFCW Local 371. The judge rejected a claim by Foxwoods that the Union and its supporters had made appeals to prejudice against members of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe.