On April 14, 2015, the National Labor Relations Board’s controversial “quickie election” rule goes into effect. This week, the NLRB’s General Counsel, Richard F. Griffin, issued a 36-page guidance memorandum outlining the Board’s new representation election procedures under the rule (NLRB Office of the General Counsel, Memorandum 15-06 (April 6, 2015)). The General Counsel asserts that the new rule does not “establish new timeframes for conducting elections or issuing decisions.” However, almost every timeline for election procedures has been accelerated. This new rule significantly tilts the NLRB’s election procedures in favor of unions by reducing the normal time for NLRB elections from approximately 38 days to as little as 13 days from the filing of a petition.
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