Mail-In Voting Issues Not Enough to Undo Union Loss, NLRB Says

The National Labor Relations Board rejected a union’s attempt to erase its loss in a mail-ballot election seeking to represent XPO Logistics Freight Inc. workers in Cincinnati.

An all-Republican panel of board members Tuesday reversed an NLRB regional director’s ruling that agency staffers potentially disenfranchised one worker and should have counted a damaged ballot—which said “yes” but was torn in half—for the union.

Overturning those two holdings rendered the rest of the case moot, since there weren’t enough disputed ballots to undo the International Brotherhood of Teamsters affiliate’s election loss, the board said.

The case highlights some of the complications ...