Other bills moving fast include requiring hospital staffing committees to include nurses and establishing financial oversight panels at the institutions, too. The legislature has already enacted paid family and medical leave. The captive meeting ban which is headed towards Walz’s desk is one of a raft of pro-worker laws the governor and lawmakers are pushing through now that the 2022 election gave the DFL and its union allies a complete “trifecta”: Control of the legislature as well as re-electing Walz. “It’s almost like there’s a script that companies follow,” he said after listening to testimony from workers in other industries. Cloud, said regular captive audience meetings created a “psychologically stressful” work environment, pitted workers against each other, and spread misinformation. Teamsters Local 120 member Jeff Schreiner, who helped lead a 10-year organizing drive at Sysco in St. The meeting was so intimidating that though 80% of workers signed union election authorization cards, only 42% voted union in the NLRB-run election, he said.
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“The person who signs your paycheck should not be allowed to force you, under threat of discipline or retaliation, to listen to their opinions about your legally protected right to choose whether to join a union,” added Patrick Kennedy, a licensed social worker who tried to organize his mental health facility for Office and Professional Employees Local 12, testified earlier this year. Likewise, if a pro-union worker stands up and challenges the boss, or the union buster the boss imports, the worker is marked out for later retribution.Īnd captive audience meetings often see veiled threats, which stop just short of labor law-breaking, that companies or institutions may close, that wages would start at zero in bargaining if the union wins a recognition vote, that benefits would be yanked, and so on.īosses also can tell lies about union dues and alleged big pay for “union bosses”-their rhetoric-while not disclosing their own pay or how much they pay the union busters.
Under current labor law, as interpreted by the courts and the National Labor Relations Board, bosses can force workers to attend the meetings and discipline those who don’t.
And that’s a small part of the intimidation. And as powerful as corporations are, and they are powerful actors in our communities, in this legislature, across the state, and in our economy, we need to make sure people who work for a living are equally powerful,” she declared at the press conference.Ī typical captive audience meeting, which Burnham said now occurs there in more than 90% of organizing campaigns in Minnesota, features bosses and supervisors haranguing workers against the union, behind closed doors. “Here at the end of this session, it is unavoidable…The powerful voices, the powerful efforts of corporations in their efforts to try and undermine the work that we’re doing for Minnesotans.
The legislation faced fierce opposition from the corporate class, Murphy said. “We are making important advances for worker safety, but as important, for worker power and worker voice.” “As powerful as corporations are…we need to make sure the people who work for a living are equally powerful,” said Murphy, a registered nurse who is also a past Minnesota Nurses Association executive director. “Many workers describe them”-captive audience meetings-“as raw intimidation,” Minnesota AFL-CIO President Bernie Burnham told lawmakers earlier this year. Paul, told the May 16 press conference on the legislation, producing chuckles from the crowd. “This bill is a big damn deal,” State Sen. Tim Walz, DFL-Minn., an Education Minnesota union member, Minnesota would join Connecticut and Oregon in outlawing the meetings, one of the most intimidating-and successful-devices bosses use to thwart workers during union organizing campaigns. PAUL, Minn.-Minnesota lawmakers appear on the verge of banning one of employers’ most notorious anti-union tactics, so-called “captive audience meetings.” Eric Murphy leads the push to end captive audience meetings forced upon workers when bosses want to feed them anti-union propaganda | video screenshot via Twitter
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