The NLRB's Hobson's Choice

You never really know what the Board is going to do when the competing interests before them are both darlings of the left (at least in the mind of conservatives). So it's interesting to see that the Board upheld a union's right to organize workers at an Indian casino in Connecticut.

I hope their brothers and sisters in Vegas can give them a hand at winning a terrific first contract, as they just did at Wynn Las Vegas and Aladdin. UNITE-HERE are reported to have gained 6,000 members in the past few months in Vegas, with projections for more contracts and members coming in 2006 and 2007.