Anti-Union Meetings Axed by NLRB Poised for Future Trump Revival

The National Labor Relations Board’s decision to buck one of the oldest standing precedents in labor law could be short-lived as the incoming Trump administration looks to roll back President Joe Biden’s pro-worker agenda, labor observers say.

The board’s Democratic majority voted 3-1 on Wednesday to overturn the 1948 holding in Babcock & Wilcox to rule that mandatory “captive audience” meetings in which companies argue against unionization are illegal.

The decision came in a case against Amazon.com Inc. and capped a years-long effort by NLRB General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo to place guardrails on the employers’ ability to communicate their anti-union ...