NLRB General Counsel Expounds Upon Desire To Ban Employers' Right to Hold Mandatory Meetings
Last week, the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) General Counsel’s office filed a brief in a case called Cemex urging the NLRB to change decades of case-law precedence by, among other things:
Effectively eliminate secret-ballot elections and impose de-facto card check, as well as…
Banning employers from conducting mandatory meetings (also called “captive-audience” meetings)
On Thursday, NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo followed up to a series of tweets she posted earlier in the week (elaborating on her desire to replace secret-ballot elections with de-facto card check) with another series of tweets that expounded on her desire to ban employers’ mandatory meetings.
It should be noted that, while Abruzzo lays out a proposed format for employers to hold voluntary meetings, when referring to so-called “captive audience” meetings, the General Counsel is not just referring to employers’ group meetings, she is also referring to supervisors discussing unionization with their employees, on a one-on-one basis, while “on the job” (working).







![A standing supervisor talks to employees seated at a conference table. Text that says: “The license [that current law] gives employers to coerce employees in the exercise of their Section 7 rights is an anomaly in Board law inconsistent with the Act’s purpose of providing employee free choice.” —Counsel for the General Counsel,
Amicus Brief, Cemex, Filed April 11, 2022.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pca5!,w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFQT7V8CVIAg8FRP.jpg)

![A supervisor talks to an employee at her workstation. Text that says: "[T]he Board should conclude that an employer has cornered employees into a captive-audience meeting when it approaches them while they are performing job duties. In such cases, employees will reasonably perceive that they cannot abandon their work without risking reprisal. They remain in place under threat.” —Counsel for the General Counsel, Amicus Brief, Cemex, Filed April 11, 2022.](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vtPg!,w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.substack.com%2Fmedia%2FFQT7zYSVEAwRG_l.jpg)



Related links:
NLRB General Counsel Elaborates On Her Rationale For Imposing De-Facto Card Check
NLRB General Counsel Files Brief To Ban "Captive Audience" Meetings, Install Back-Door Card Check
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