Around 100 Sacramento-area casino workers and labor allies protested Tuesday evening at the entrance to Sky River Casino, the latest escalation in the hotel and casino workers’ union’s yearslong organizing campaign for the tribal casino that opened in 2022.
Francisco Maldonado, a lead cook at Sky River, said there has been a sense of frustration among workers. They feel they are making progress toward union representation, he said, but it has been very slow.
“We want them to hear us,” Maldonado said.
Unite Here Local 49 — the area chapter of the hotel and casino workers’ union — has argued that, under an agreement the groups reached in 2017, the casino must recognize the union as its workers’ representative.
