Manufacturing Success, Episode #4: The Practical Impact of Outlawing Captive Audience Meetings

The NLRB remains in the midst of an extremely active year, defined in no small part by the drive to roll back certain pro-employer initiatives implemented by the Trump Administration. A swinging pendulum of priorities from one administration to the next is pro forma for the NLRB. But the 2023 swing projects to be more pronounced than many other years.

In this episode of Manufacturing Success, host Mike Carrouth is joined by Steve Bernstein, co-chair of Fisher Phillips’ Labor Relations Practice Group, for another look at the NLRB and it’s packed agenda of priorities. Specifically, the efforts being taken to eliminate or restrict the ability of employers to meet with employees during union organizing drives and lawfully share facts that allow for an informed decision on unionization. These so-called “captive audience” meetings, which are routinely conducted to educate employees, and have been a staple in the American workplace since Congress amended labor laws to recognize employer free-speech rights 75 years ago, seem poised for an abrupt ending this year.