Earlier today the Connecticut Employment Law Blog (a great blog to watch by the way, and its author Daniel Schwartz is someone you should follow on twitter if you don’t already…) had a post on “Boom Times” at the NLRB. I have to admit that when I read it I was nodding my head in agreement. As someone who watches petition activity very closely, my impression was the same as the NLRB regional officer who said that petitions were way up. Then I went to LRIonline and ran the numbers…
Surprisingly, petitions overall are tracking pretty close to where they were last year. I’m not saying that a 70% increase in petitions in Region 34 is anything to sneeze at, but do they really need 3 lawyers to handle those additional 2 cases per month? To be fair this is only petitions, and I’m not doubting that the NLRB is staffing up for a potential increased caseload (which was the point Daniel was making). But at least at this point I wouldn’t exactly call it “boom times.”
