In-Person Union Elections Return With NLRB Changed Pandemic Test

In-person union elections are on the road to returning as the primary method for voting because of the National Labor Relations Board’s recently modified test for deciding if pandemic conditions warrant mail-in balloting.

All seven elections that NLRB regional directors scheduled by applying the standard from its Sept. 29 decision in Starbucks Corp. were set for manual elections rather than mail-in balloting. One of those in-person contests also will feature mail voting for a subset of a Minnesota medical center’s employees who work remotely.

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