Saipan Hotel Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board

WILLIAM A. NORRIS, Circuit Judge:

Saipan Hotel Corporation petitions for review of an NLRB order directing it to bargain with the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees, Local 5, AFL-CIO (the “Union”). The NLRB cross-petitions for enforcement of its order.

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Saipan Hotel operates in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (“CNMI”), which is a self-governing commonwealth in political union by covenant with the United States. The hotel employs non-*996immigrant alien contract workers, classified as “nonresident” workers, as well as “resident” workers, who include U.S. citizens, persons bom in…