Business Groups Challenge California's Ban on 'Captive Audience' Meetings

📆 09-01-25 16:41:00

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The California Chamber of Commerce and California Restaurant Assn. filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that bans employers from holding mandatory meetings to deliver anti-union or other political and religious propaganda. The lawsuit argues that the law violates employers' First Amendment rights, but supporters say it protects workers from coercion. The law is similar to those in 10 other states and a recent NLRB ruling that banned captive audience meetings in unionization drives.

It's always heartening to see the business establishment stand up for constitutional principles. Well, almost always. Among the exceptions is when business leaders wrap themselves in the Constitution to secure their own privileges at the expense of the public interest. That's the case with a curious little lawsuit the California Chamber of Commerce and California Restaurant Assn. dropped in Sacramento federal court on New Year's Eve.

' Amazon's activities prompted the board to reconsider the 1948 policy, which was set forth in a case involving the boiler company Babcock & Wilcox. The board noted that the 1948 finding that captive audience meetings didn't violate labor law was 'largely unexplained' and 'flawed' under the law. So it was bound to be overturned.

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