Mail-In Voter Standard for Union Elections Reaffirmed by NLRB

The National Labor Relations Board reaffirmed its 30-year-old standard for determining voter eligibility in mail-in union elections in a ruling that counted the ballots of two workers who quit after they voted.

Workers are eligible to vote “if they are in the unit on both the payroll eligibility cutoff date and on the date they mail in their ballots to the Board’s designated office,” the NLRB said in a Wednesday order, quoting its 1992 ruling in Dredge Operators.

The board said it would direct the agency to update its form for stipulated mail balloting to reflect that eligibility standard. ...