Unite Here v. Wilton Rancheria

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 UNITE HERE, No. 2:23-cv-02767-KJM-SCR Plaintiff, ORDER v. Wilton Rancheria, 1S Defendant. 16 UNITE HERE is an organization that represents employees in casinos, hotels and the food 18 service industry, and it is the plaintiff in this lawsuit. Wilton Rancheria is a federally recognized 19 Indian Tribe, and it is the defendant. The parties completed arbitration related to the Union’s 20 efforts to organize employees at the Tribe’s casino earlier this year, and the Tribe now seeks to vacate the arbitrator’s award. As explained in this order, because the arbitrator’s decision was 22 rational and within his authority, the court denies the Tribe’s motion to vacate the award. 23 I. BACKGROUND The Union filed this lawsuit to compel the Tribe to follow a process laid out in a 2017 “Memorandum of Agreement” or “MOA” between the two of them. See MOA, Compl. Ex. B, ECF No. 1;…