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Labor union target California compacts

"A horse-track owner has also thrown its support behind the effort and several smaller gambling tribes may do the same, advisers to one suggested Monday.

"...UNITE HERE, the nation's largest hotel-workers union, filed paperwork Friday with the state attorney general's office, the first step toward taking the issue to voters. The union would need to gather about 434,000 signatures in the next two months to put the referenda on the ballot for the Feb. 5 presidential primary election.

"The union had demanded that the agreements ---- known as compacts ---- include provisions to make it easier to unionize casinos. Side agreements negotiated just days before the Assembly approved the compacts in late June include additional financial oversight, but not the provisions that the union wanted.

"Bay Meadows Land Co., which owns racetracks in Inglewood and San Mateo, is supporting the effort to put the four compacts to voters. large-scale expansions.

"...The union seeks to put four separate referenda on the ballot. One addresses the compact related to Pechanga's casino; others address the compact for Morongo's casino near Banning, the agreement with the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation's for its casino near El Cajon and the compact that allows the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians to expand its two casinos next to Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage..."

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