THIS JUST IN: Bosses Must Tell Workers About Union Rights, Board Says

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)U.S. employers must now post notices informing workers about their legal rights to form a union and bargain on contracts, the National Labor Relations Board said yesterday. Unions and labor-rights groups cheered the news, while the Chamber of Commerce and its allies – which had vociferously opposed the new rule – complained bitterly. “It’s almost like an invitation to non-union employees to start thinking about joining unions,” Doreen Davis, a partner in the labor and employment practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in New York and Philadelphia told Bloomberg News. The rule “imposes a minimal burden on employers, while giving employees the information they need to choose to exercise their rights,” said Kimberly Freeman Brown, executive director of American Rights at Work.