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NLRB calls for more funding amid jump in labor cases

BY CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 10/21/22

The National Labor Relations Board is calling for increased funding from the Biden administration after it saw a 53 percent increase in union-election petitions filed during the last fiscal year compared to FY 2021.

Between October 2021 and Sept. 30, labor organizations and workers filed 2,510 petitions seeking a union election, up from 1,638 petitions during the same period a year earlier, the NLRB said last week. The increase added up to the largest number of petitions filed since FY 2016.

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