![]() ![]() ![]() On Sunday, Foxwoods released a statement saying the company was temporarily laying off a majority of its workforce without benefits beginning May 31. “We want to get back to work," said DelMonte, a casino employee. That's also forced layoffs and furloughs among the more than 1 million people working for tribes, many of them in casinos.įurloughed workers had been getting by with unemployment benefits and health coverage that many casinos kept in place, said John DelMonte, president of UAW Local 2121, a union representing 1,200 card dealers at the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut. While other Native American-owned casinos have reopened or plan to in coming weeks, most are still closed.
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