Companies can’t require employees to attend anti-union meetings, labor board rules

Employers can still hold meetings to express their views on unionization, but must now give workers advance notice and make clear they are voluntary.

WASHINGTON — Employers can no longer require workers to attend mandatory anti-union meetings, the National Labor Relations Board ruled Wednesday, a major shift in labor law that could impact union organizing efforts nationwide.

The decision, stemming from a case involving a series of anti-union meetings at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse, overturns a 75-year-old precedent that had allowed employers to hold these so-called “captive audience meetings” where workers were required to listen to management’s views on unionization.

Under the new ruling,

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