California businesses are challenging a new state law that prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend anti-union meetings at work.
A union worker blocks an Amazon delivery truck from leaving the warehouse at Amazon Warehouse DCK6 in the Bayview District in San Francisco on December 19, 2024. Amazon workers at multiple facilities across the United States went on strike to fight for a union contract. California businesses are suing to halt a new state law that bars them from requiring employees to attend anti-union meetings at work.
On New Year’s Eve, a day before the new law was to go into effect, seeking to block it from being enforced. Businesses could be fined $500 a day for violations. Labor groups said these so-called captive audience meetings intimidate workers out of exercising their right to unionize; business groups argued it interferes with employers’ right to free speech, including discussing how political or policy developments affect their workplaces. The law, authored by Hayward Democratic Sen. Aisha Wahab, was one of organized labor’s few victories in the 2024 legislative session. California joined about 10 other mostly Democratic states in enacting similar laws. For example, the National Labor Relations Board, which has for decades generally allowed employers to hold so-called captive audience meetings, in November. But Amazon, the employer in that case, is contesting the ruling and labor experts expect the board to reverse its position under Trump. In that case, the California ban on the meetings would still apply. But the suit challenging the law is no surprise. Businesses have already sued over similar laws in other states. Wisconsin in 2009 was one of the first states to ban such meetings; when employers filed suit the following year, arguing it conflicted with federal law, the state backed down and agreed not to enforce it
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