Another manner a few managers try to persuade a union pressure is through so-called “captive target market” conferences, which employees can be required to attend. Such activities are “meetings of worry,” Campos-Medina stated, “wherein they tell [employees], ‘If you be part of a union, you will lose your job.’”
Heldman, in her testimony, described such conferences after employees filed a petition for representation through the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers’ International Union: “They advised us the plant should near, that we would lose our wages and advantages, and that we’d be compelled to head on strike,” she said. “If we didn’t go to those conferences, we would be fired.”
The PRO Act would ban required or coerced attendance at captive target market conferences and different “campaign sports” of the organisation unrelated to activity responsibilities.
