NLRB Top Attorney Sued Over ‘Captive Audience’ Meeting Guidance

A group of staffing firms sued to prevent the NLRB general counsel from arguing that federal labor law prohibits forcing workers to attend anti-union meetings.

National Labor Relations Board General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo’s April guidance memo targeting mandatory anti-union meetings violates employers’ First Amendment right to present their views on unions, the staffing firms said in a complaint filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.

The staffing firms want a court to set aside the guidance as unconstitutional and block the NLRB general counsel’s office from enforcing it through litigation. Agency lawyers acting under the ...