Fed agency OKs unions including temp workers

Fed agency OKs unions including temp workers: 

The National Labor Relations Board, the main federal labor law enforcement agency, announced Monday that it will force businesses to allow unions that include temporary workers, reversing an earlier prohibition that excluded temps.
The move is the board's latest action to expand its regulatory reach and make labor organizing easier by expanding its joint employer standard.
Previously, temp workers could be part of a union only if the employer consented. That was the board's decision in a 2000 case called Oakwood, which held that since temps by definition were not regular, long-term employees, the employer was not obligated to recognize their request to be included in a union with its full-time employees.
On Monday in a case called Miller and Anderson Inc. v. Tradesmen International and Sheet Metal Workers, the board reversed itself and said employer consent is not necessary in such cases.