U.S. Supreme Court upholds Minnesota's worker protection law decision

Minnesota’s ban on anti-union captive audience meetings survives legal challenge

Union carpenters picket Pillsbury Ridge, an affordable housing development in Burnsville, in April 2025. (Photo by Max Nesterak/Minnesota Reformer)Minnesota’s ban on anti-union “captive audience meetings” survived a legal challenge and remains in effect after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal from two non-union contractor associations and a Minnesota electrician. The law, which passed as part of a sweeping pro-labor agenda in …

Minnesota's ban on 'captive audience meetings' is allowed to stand by U.S. Supreme Court

ST. PAUL — The United States Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge to Minnesota’s ban on captive audience meetings, leaving in place the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit dismissing the lawsuit, according to a news release from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's office on Monday. Minnesota’s law, passed during the 2023 legislative session, protects employees from retaliation if they decline to…

U.S. Supreme Court upholds Minnesota's worker protection law decision

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a challenge against Minnesota's ban on captive audience meetings.