A Captivating New Paper
Paul Secunda argues in a new paper on SSRN that the National Labor Relations Act should be interpreted to prohibit “captive audience meetings.” Employers require employee attendance at such meetings in order to communicate anti-union messages. Paul has written interestingly about captive audience meetings from a number of perspectives (see, e.g., here). In the new paper, he critically examines NLRB precedent that approves of such meetings.
Entitled “The Contemporary ‘Fist Inside the Velvet Glove’ — Employer Captive Audience Meetings Under the NLRA,” the paper will be published in a symposium issue of the Florida International University Law Review devoted to the NLRB. The abstract appears after the jump.