Supreme Court won't consider labor board power over Indian casinos
Source: Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to wade into a legal battle pitting Native American tribal sovereignty against the federal government's power to regulate labor relations in cases involving casinos on Indian land in Michigan.
In deciding to stay out of that fight, the court let stand a pair of federal appeals court rulings that gave the U.S. National Labor Relations Board authority over casinos on Indian land.
Those rulings boosted unions' ability to organize workers in the tribal casino industry, which generated $28.5 billion in gaming revenue in 2014, the most recent year for which figures were available, according to the National Indian Gaming Commission.
With the Supreme Court declining to take up the issue, the Republican-led Congress stands as the tribes' best hope of avoiding NLRB jurisdiction. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in November to strip the labor board's authority over tribal businesses on Indian lands, but that has been stalled in the Senate. That means the tribes must abide by the two decisions from the Cincinnati, Ohio-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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World | Mon Jun 27, 2016 10:00am EDT
WASHINGTON | BY ROBERT IAFOLLA
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