Table of Contents:
  • Jurisdiction
  • Regional directors' decisionmaking authority in representation cases
  • Initial representation case procedures
  • Types of petitions
  • Showing of interest
  • Qualification of representative
  • Existence of a representation question
  • Disclaimer of interest and withdrawal of petition
  • Contract bar
  • Prior determinations and other bars to an election
  • Amendment, clarification, and deauthorization petitions, final offer elections and wage-hour certifications
  • Appropriate unit : general principles
  • Multilocation employers
  • Multiemployer, single employer, and joint employer units
  • Specific units and industries
  • Craft and traditional departmental units
  • Statutory exclusions
  • Statutory limitations
  • Categories governed by board policy
  • Effect of status or tenure on unit placement and eligibility to vote
  • Self-determination elections
  • Representation case procedures affecting the election
  • Voting eligibility
  • Interference with elections.