The NLRB Will Eliminate Faster Union Elections. How Much Does it Matter?

In the four years since the union election rules changed, the election time period has been two weeks shorter, and the union win rate increased by more than 3%.

In 2014, Obama’s NLRB adopted a number of rule changes that were intended to streamline how union elections were conducted. These changes followed a lengthy NLRB rule-making process which received tens of thousands of comments and went into effect in April, 2015. Perhaps the most important result was that the time period between the filing of a union…