COVID-19 has fundamentally changed the way representation elections are conducted. From March 1 to November 16, 2020, the National Labor Relations Board issued 167 election decisions and, of those, only 2 manual elections have been directed to proceed in that time-frame. This is a marked change in the Board’s longstanding preference for manual elections. The overwhelming trend towards mail-in elections was necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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