The National Labor Relations Board says two charter schools in New Orleans are not exempt from federal labor law.

The NLRB says International High School of New Orleans and Lusher Charter School must begin bargaining with teachers and staff who voted to form unions.

United Teachers of New Orleans President Jim Randels.

[Jim Randels]: "I think it's a real victory for public education in New Orleans, because it means that teachers and educators in the buildings can now really work with administrators and the school boards at the approximately seventy schools that are chartered with about some forty different school boards in New Orleans on makin' their schools the best possible."