Saturday, April 11, 2026 6:40 PM
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Annika Merrilees, The Sacramento Bee
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The Sacramento region’s hotel and casino workers’ union this week celebrated a win in the group’s yearslong legal disputes with Sky River Casino in Elk Grove.
Unite Here Local 49 has sought to represent the employees since before the casino’s existence, and in recent years the campaign has escalated with lawsuits and protests outside the casino. Sky River and the union have been mired in a dispute over whether Unite Here must be recognized as the workers’ labor representative after securing a majority of signed union authorization cards from employees, or whether it must organize an election.
The federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion this week supporting an arbitrator’s findings that the union may follow the card-signing process.
