Lafe Solomon, acting General Counsel of the NLRB issued a memo to all Board staff recently reflecting on the awesome accomplishments of the Board and its field agents in 2011 including:
> 1,423 “initial representation elections” were conducted to provide workers an opportunity to vote on whether to form a union;
> 89 percent of initial elections were held pursuant to an agreement between the employer and the union – exceeding the agency’s goal of 85 percent;
> 91.7 percent of all initial elections were conducted within 56 days – exceeding the agency’s goal of 90 percent;
> 38 days was the median time between the filing of a petition and the election – “well below” the agency’s goal of 42 days; and
> 33 days was the median amount of time necessary for NLRB Regional Directors to issue decisions before the election when the election was contested.
So what’s broke again?
