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Omaha Steve

(103,574 posts)
Fri Aug 9, 2024, 07:20 AM Aug 2024

Illinois bans companies from forcing workers to listen to their anti-union talk

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/30/nx-s1-5040451/captive-audience-anti-union-religious-meetings-afl-cio

Updated July 31, 202412:41 PM ET
Heard on Morning Edition
Andrea Hsu, photographed for NPR, 11 March 2020, in Washington DC.

Andrea Hsu

Illinois has become the latest state to adopt legislation aimed at protecting workers from their employers' anti-union messaging.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, signed the bill into law on Wednesday, joining a wave of other states that have enacted similar laws over the past couple years as union organizing has surged.

The Illinois Worker Freedom of Speech Act, which takes effect January 1, prohibits employers from holding mandatory meetings to discuss company views on religion or politics, and specifically unions.

Such meetings, known as captive audience meetings, are widely used by companies to convince workers that they'd be better off without a union.

FULL story at link above.
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