Along with small businesses, credit unions covered under aproposed National Labor Relations Rule requiring posting of noticeson union organizing have been given a three-month reprieve untilApril 30 to comply.

According to Boston labor attorney Howard Bloom, a recentspeaker at a Massachusetts Credit Union League seminar, the NLRB'ssecond delay of the notice posting rule raises the prospect that“it might not go into effect at all though that remains to beseen.”

The rule, which was to go into effect Jan. 31, follows anearlier Nov. 14, 2001 deadline. It stipulates that a CU or smallbusiness must post a stand-alone, 11 x 17 poster on collectivebargaining rights so it can “be easily seen” by employees.

Small business and manufacturing trade groups have sought toblock NLRB implementation of the rule in federal D.C. courts.

In a Dec. 23 notice the NLRB said it would be delayingimplementation after U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jacksonsided with the National Association of Manufacturers on a suit itbrought against the agency on grounds the posters illegally promoteunionization.

If the rule does become effective, “supervisors who have neverbeen confronted by this kind of issue” will need to be well trainedto understand employee rights, advised Bloom, a partner at Jackson Lewis LLP of Boston.