New York Teamsters are applauding the state legislature for sending a bill protecting worker free speech rights to the desk of Gov. Kathy Hochul. The legislation bans mandatory attendance at “captive audience” meetings – employer-held, closed-door gatherings where workers are forced under threat of termination to listen to deceptive misinformation designed to dissuade them from organizing.
“State Senator Jessica Ramos, Assemblymember Karines Reyes, and everyone else who supported this bill have done an incredible service defending economic democracy and the right of New Yorkers to determine what’s in their own self-interest—without being subject to coercion, intimidation, or imposition,” said Thomas Gesualdi, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16. “We’re urging the Governor to enact these bills into law as quickly as possible.”

(ALBANY, N.Y.) – New York Teamsters are applauding the state legislature for sending a bill protecting worker free speech rights (S.4982/A.6604) to the desk o
“State Senator Jessica Ramos, Assemblymember Karines Reyes, and everyone else who supported this bill have done an incredible service defending economic democracy and the right of New Yorkers to determine what’s in their own self-interest—without being subject to coercion, intimidation, or imposition,” said Thomas Gesualdi, President of Teamsters Joint Council 16. “We’re urging the Governor to enact these bills into law as quickly as possible.”

(ALBANY, N.Y.) – New York Teamsters are applauding the state legislature for sending a bill protecting worker free speech rights (S.4982/A.6604) to the desk o