On November 13th, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that employers who mandate employees to attend captive audience meetings under threat of discipline or firing to be violating the National Labor Relations Act, a federal law.

This means that employers can no longer force employees to attend anti-union meetings, and workers are legally allowed to skip them without being fired or disciplined.

As per the NLRB, however, these sort of meetings are not completely going away:

“However, the Board made clear that an employer may lawfully hold meetings with workers to express its views on unionization so long as workers are provided reasonable advance notice of: the subject of any such meeting, that attendance is voluntary with no adverse consequences for failure to attend, and that no attendance records of the meeting will be kept.”

Captive audience meetings can still happen, but the audience is not so captive anymore! Employers can still have anti-union meetings but must inform workers in advance, can’t keep a record of who went, and can’t target workers that didn’t.

This ruling comes shortly after SB 399 was recently passed in California, which passed a similar law statewide.

This is a huge win for workers in the country! If there’s a time for workers to unionize, it’s now!

Read more here: https://ielabor.org/captiveaudienceban

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