"Jay Leno once refused to appear at a Las Vegas convention for human resource managers in which one of the seminars, “How To Stay Union Free,” was to be run by the renowned union-busting law firm of Jackson Lewis.

One wonders how Leno, who appears frequently at Foxwoods Resort Casino, might react when he finds out Foxwoods has hired Jackson Lewis to, well, try to stay union-free.

Leno, a union member himself, delivered more or less an ultimatum to the conventioneers in Vegas, the Society of Human Resource Management, and the show went on. Jackson Lewis was dropped from the program.

I suspect that, if pressed with the same kind of choice, the Mashantucket Pequots and the managers in the Fourth Floor at Foxwoods would choose their new lawyers over the wisecracking comic.

The tribe is surely not in a lighthearted mood about the serious organizing effort by the United Auto Workers now under way at the casino. Having just entered into a management-sharing agreement with MGM Mirage, they must be loath to think of having to share some more with one of the nation's biggest unions."

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Foxwoods Loading Up The Big Anti-Union Guns (The New London Day 7/6)
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