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NLRB Aside, Bans on Captive Audience Meetings Spread Across the States

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made waves with its November 13, 2024 decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) overturning Babcock & Wilcox Co. and 75 years of precedent that had allowed...more

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NLRB Outlaws “Captive Audience” Union Campaign Meetings

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On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Amazon.com Services committed an unfair labor practice by requiring employees to attend a work time meeting to hear Amazon’s views on union representation....more

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NLRB Delivers Another Sucker Punch to Employers by Outlawing Mandatory Captive Audience Meeting

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Going against decades of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (“the Board”), in Amazon.com, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024), held that employers violate federal labor law when they require employee attendance at meetings...more

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Taking a Deeper Look at the Implications of the NLRB Declaring Captive-Audience Meetings Unlawful

On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, holding that "captive-audience meetings" are unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). This decision...more

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Employment Law Update: NLRB Bans Captive-Audience Meetings: A Sea Change for U.S. Employers

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On November 13, 2024, in a landmark decision, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that “captive audience” meetings — where an employer requires workers to attend a meeting in which the employer expresses its...more

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NLRB Bans Captive Audience Meeting—But Will It Stick?

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has overturned a 1948 precedent and declared that an employer commits an unfair labor practice in violation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it requires employees to...more

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National Labor Relations Board Bans Captive Audience Meetings

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On November 13, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a landmark decision in the case of Amazon Services LLC, banning so-called “captive audience meetings,” a tool regularly used by employers in response to...more

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NLRB Curtails Employers' Ability to Advocate to Remain Union Free: Long-Standing Precedent Rebuked

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On November 13, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in Amazon.com Services LLC, 373 NLRB No. 136 (2024) ruling that an employer violates the National Labor Relations Act by requiring employees under...more

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NLRB Delivers Ban on Captive-Audience Meetings in Amazon Case

Throwing out 75 Years of precedent in a single decision, on November 13, 2024, in Amazon.com Services LLC, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) the Board overruled the seminal case of Babcock & Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB...more

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“What's Going On” With Unionization in America?

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A great American songwriter and singer once wrote ”picket lines and picket signs, don't punish me with brutality, talk to me so you can see, what's going on...” –Marvin Gaye, 1971...more

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The Labor Law Insider: New York Amazon Employees Vote for Union - What Do We Learn?

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Tom Godar, of counsel at Husch Blackwell, and host of the Labor Law Insider, explores the impact of the successful union election campaign at Amazon’s Staten Island distribution center. This is in contrast to the ongoing...more

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NLRB to Hear Union Objections to Vote at Amazon Warehouse

On April 9, 2021, all eyes were on Bessemer, Alabama as votes were counted in the most highly publicized union vote in recent memory. President Biden, politicians, activists, nonprofits, and celebrities all weighed in, and...more

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Round One Goes to the Company: Lessons Learned from Amazon's Union Organizing Drive

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On Friday, April 9, 2021, workers for Amazon in Alabama voted by an overwhelming majority to remain union-free, thereby preventing Amazon's first union-organized facility in the United States. According to organized labor,...more

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Union organizing on steroids

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Against the backdrop of a new administration, an evolving workforce, and a changing economy brought about by the pandemic, the landscape for union organizing has radically changed in 2021.  While the nation’s attention is...more

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Get ready: Union organizing on steroids

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Against the backdrop of a new administration, an evolving workforce, and a changing economy brought about by the pandemic, the landscape for union organizing has radically changed in 2021.  While the nation’s attention is...more

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