National Labor Relations Board Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2009

摘要

This is the NLRB Fiscal Year 2009 Performance and Accountability Report. This annual report provides insight into the workings of the NLRB, an independent federal agency established in 1935 to promote workplace democracy. It was an unusual 12 months for the agency. The fiscal year began and ended with three vacancies on the five-member Board, the first time this has happened in NLRB history. The two-member Board issued 256 decisions, of which 195 were unfair labor practice cases, and 61 were representation cases. Although many cases raised issues of significance, all were decided on the basis of existing precedent. Other cases raising novel or especially difficult issues about 20% of the total must wait to be decided by a larger Board. Despite these obstacles, the inventory of cases pending before the Board rose only slightly, from 171 at the beginning of FY 2009 to 193 at the end of it.