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A hearing is set to begin today between Connecticut’s largest tribal casino and the United Autoworkers. Jesse Russell reports:

The National Labor Relations Board will begin hearing a case today that will determine the validity of a union election at the Foxwood’s Resort Casino in Connecticut. The casino is owned by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation which has challenged the results of an election that found a majority of workers seeking representation by the United Auto Workers. The board has thrown out two of the Pequots 10 objections including one that contested that the casino, being on tribal land, doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of the NLRB. The remaining objections concern how UAW members went about encouraging workers to vote, suggesting some workers were harassed into voting for the union. If the board does agree that there was misconduct during the election, then a new election will be held. Only one other tribal casino in the country has workers represented by a union and Foxwoods would be the first in the state of Connecticut. The hearing is expected to close on Thursday and decisions usually take one or two weeks.