Demonstrators in February 2021 rallied in New York City in support of Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama. Credit: Ben Von Klemperer/Shutterstock.com
Union-representation petitions filed by workers with the National Labor Relations Board have been essentially flat through the first three quarters of the fiscal year, a big slowdown in growth from the 58% increase recorded in the same nine months a year earlier.
But employment lawyers tracking the activity say it would be wrong to interpret the lull as indicating that unionizing efforts are losing momentum. Petition filings through the first nine months ending June 30 totaled 1,904, higher than the full year for all but four of the past 10 years. Petitions totaled 1,892 in the same nine months a year earlier.
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Hugo Guzman
Hugo Guzman is a reporter on ALM's in-house desk based in California, covering legal departments at disruptive technology companies, as well as labor and employment issues involving the NLRB, EEOC and other regulators. Connect with him at [email protected] today.
