APNewsBreak: Rule would promote union rights

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Labor Relations Board wants private employers to tell workers about their right to form a union.

The agency is proposing a rule that would require most businesses to prominently display a list of legal rights to engage in union activities without reprisal.

The rule is likely to please labor unions that are seeking to reverse years of decline in union membership ranks. But it's bound to draw the ire of many companies that have spent years trying to resist union organizers. It could take effect in as few as 60 days.

The move comes less than a year after President Barack Obama made three recess appointments to give the labor board its first Democratic majority in a decade.