Note: This Resolution is submitted for
discussion, dialog, debate and action by the Midwest Casino Workers
Organizing Council as our part in celebrating the United Nations'
Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2013:
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Feel free to circulate.
Resolution on the
Plight of Casino Workers Employed in the Indian Gaming Industry
(140 words)
Where as over 40,000 Minnesotans are
employed in the Indian Gaming Industry;
Where as these 40,000 Minnesotans are
forced to work in loud, noisy, smoke-filled casinos and associated
enterprises of the Indian Gaming Industry at poverty wages;
Where as these 40,000 workers have no
rights defined under state, federal, tribal labor or international
laws capable of being enforced to protect them;
Where as the United Nations' Universal
Declaration of Human Rights clearly declares all workers are entitled
to such protections as basic human rights;
Therefore, be it resolved that the
“Compacts” creating this Indian Gaming Industry be re-opened and
re-negotiated to include the state, federal and international
protections enjoyed by all other workers;
Therefore, be it resolved this becomes
the position of (name of organization/party).
