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NLRB Rules Captive Audience Meetings Are Illegal Employer Coercion (Likely Reversed 2025)

| Importance: 7/10

The National Labor Relations Board rules that mandatory captive audience meetings—where employers force workers to attend anti-union presentations under threat of termination—violate the National Labor Relations Act as illegal employer coercion. The Biden-era NLRB finds that compelling workers to …

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Starbucks Executes Systematic Union-Busting Campaign with Record NLRB Violations

| Importance: 8/10

Following grassroots organizing success at Buffalo stores in late 2021, Starbucks launches a systematic illegal union-busting campaign that generates over 500 unfair labor practice charges—likely the largest number facing any company in the 90-year history of the National Labor Relations Board. The …

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J.P. Stevens Found Guilty of Massive NLRB Violations, Creates Corporate Union-Busting Playbook

| Importance: 8/10

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals upholds the NLRB’s finding that J.P. Stevens & Company engaged in the “most flagrant and extensive violations” of labor law in the board’s history, confirming over 100 unfair labor practice findings against the textile giant. Stevens …

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