Chamber Wins Supreme Court Victory in Employers’ Rights Case

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 19 ruled in Chamber of Commerce of the United States et al.  v. Brown et al., that states may no longer restrict employers’ rights to communicate with their employees about unionization. The decision will ripple through the legal system and likely result in the invalidation of similar legislation in other states.

“It’s simply unethical for a state to use taxpayers’ funds to tie the hands of employers in union organizing drives,” says Steven Law, chief legal officer and general counsel for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “Not only is it unethical, but today the Supreme Court declared that it’s unlawful under the National Labor Relations Act for a state to muzzle employers’ speech rights.”

The National Chamber Litigation Center, the U.S. Chamber’s public policy law firm, challenged a 2000 California law that prohibits state contractors and other companies that receive more than $10,000 from the state from using those funds “to assist, promote, or deter union organizing.”

Learn more about the case.

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