Discovery Cove in Orlando Credit: Seaworld Orlando/FacebookIn a victory for divers at Orlando’s Discovery Cove who voted to unionize last year, The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that SeaWorld has violated federal labor law by failing to recognize the divers’ union. SeaWorld is now being ordered to recognize the union, begin bargaining talks and display a notice in conspicuous employee areas, such as break rooms, that explicitly states the company violated federal labor law. Maintenance divers at Discovery Cove, the Orlando park owned by the same company as SeaWorld, voted unanimously to unionize with the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30 last May. Under the act, private employers have a legal duty to bargain “in good faith” with a union that has been certified by the federal labor board as the workers’ bargaining representative. The labor board, in last week’s ruling, also ordered SeaWorld to distribute and post a notice to employees onsite at Discovery Cove — a shame-on-me notice, of sorts, shared in full at the bottom of this article — that explicitly states that SeaWorld violated federal labor law.