NLRB Top Lawyer’s ‘Captive Audience’ Memo Survives Lawsuit (1)

A memo from the NLRB’s top lawyer arguing that companies’ mandatory, anti-union meetings violate federal labor law survived a Michigan trade association’s federal court challenge.

The Associated Builders and Contractors of Michigan lacked standing to sue because it couldn’t show that it suffered a sufficient concrete injury or threat based on National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s memo on “captive audience meetings,” US District Judge Robert Jonker ruled Monday.

The case is one of at least two lawsuits attacking Abruzzo’s memo. In a separate case pending in federal court in Texas, a group of staffing firms has a ...