ANALYSIS: NLRB Stats Show Union Elections Still in Slowdown Mode

The coronavirus-activated brakes applied by the National Labor Relations Board to the union representation process could still be heard grinding as the year passed the halfway point, according to NLRB election data analyzed by Bloomberg Law.

The NLRB oversaw only 432 representation elections in first-half 2020, down 26% from 583 elections in first-half 2019. Unions in first-half 2020 won 315 elections, down 30% from 447 in the comparable period of 2019. That means that labor actually tallied more wins by the midpoint of 2019 than elections of any sort—wins or losses—by mid-2020.

All told, unions successfully organized 16,013 workers ...