California businesses are suing to halt a new state law that bars them from requiring employees to attend anti-union meetings at work. The state’s Chamber of Commerce and California Restaurant Association filed the suit in federal court on New Year’s Eve, a day before the new law was to go into effect, seeking to block it from being enforced.

New year, new labor laws for Californians. After basking in 2023’s “hot labor summer,” which saw a high number of progressive bills passed and signed into law, labor unions