Labor organizing activity rose over the past two years with nearly as many representation election (RC) petitions filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) from 2022 through 2023 as the previous three years, while the average time to close petitions saw a significant drop in 2023, according to public filing data compiled by Ogletree Deakins.
Following the end of the pandemic and amid several precedent-shifting NLRB decisions, a total of 4,242 RC petitions were filed with the NLRB from the beginning of 2022 through 2023, nearly topping the 4,347 filed from the beginning of 2019 through 2021.
