A Jewish manager has won a discrimination claim against a Tunica Mississippi casino. The Clarion-Ledger reports " two former casino employees testified they heard the general manager refer to Silverberg as a "G.D. Jewish slug." The jury awarded the former food and beverage director $102,000 in back pay, $76,500 for mental anxiety and $400,000 in punitive damages.

The Clarion-Ledger online has a pretty good overview piece on the state of labor in Mississippi.

Here is an interesting short piece about a strike in Columbus, Mississippi. There is not much to the article but the intensity of the reader comments is very telling about the economy and the sharp divide between those angry with "corporate America" and those valuing a job, any job.

Workers at Omnova's plant in Columbus, MS have been on strike for over a year. Now the replacement workers have filed a decertification petition with the NLRB. The union has indicated it will aggressively contest the decertification. Previous posts here.

Here is an interesting post by a conservative Mississippi blogger about labor's funding the state's two democratic congressmen. The blogger suggests the small contributions this election cycle relates to the congressmen's opposition to EFCA.