Government Shutdown Sets Off Union Strike at Caesars Casino

Oct. 17, 2025, 6:41 PM UTC

The ongoing government shutdown sparked a 200-worker strike at a Caesars Entertainment Inc.-owned casino in the Indianapolis area.

The Horseshoe Indianapolis employees struck because the National Labor Relations Board indefinitely postponed a union election due to the shutdown, and the casino refused to allow a neutral third party to supervise a vote, an International Brotherhood of Teamsters affiliate announced Friday.

The strike shows how an inactive NLRB disrupts labor-management relations in the private sector. The lapse in government funding forced the agency to furlough nearly 99% of the agency’s staffers.

Although the labor board has been without a functioning ...

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