TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT - National Labor Relations Board

Operations in Fiscal Year 1961 17
With respect to 10(1) injunctions granted during the 1958-61 period,
the Office of the General Counsel was sustained in whole or substantial
part by the Board and the courts in approximately 94 per cent
of the decisions
a. Regional Advisory Conferences
During fiscal 1960 the Office of the General Counsel initiated its
program of regional ad% isory conferences patterned after the Federal
judicial conferences Participating in these conferences were labor
and management lawyers, laboi-management specialists, industrial
nelations educatois, and NLRB officials These confer. ences %, ere
continued in fiscal 1961 This idea in Improved communication and
understanding at the regional level has been well received
4. Decisional Activities of the Board
The Board Members issued decisions in 3,798 ,cases of all types
This number included the 52 decisions by regiotal directors Of
these cases, 3,254 wet e brought to the Board on contest over either the
facts or the application of the law, 766 were unfair labor practice
cases, and 2,488 were representation cases The remaining 544 cases
were uncontested, in these, the Board issued orders to which the
parties had consented or made rulings as to conduct of elections held
by agreement of the parties
In the representation cases, the Board directed elections in 2,166
cases Regional directors directed 52 elections and 270 petitions for
elections were dismissed
Of the 766 contested unfair labor practice cases, 543, or 71 percent,
involved charges against employers, 223, or 29 percent, involved
charges against unions The Board found violations in 585 cases, or
76 percent
The Board found violations by employers in 411, or 76 percent of
the 543 cases against employers In these cases, the Board ordered
employers to reinstate a total of 968 employees and to pay backpay to
a total of 1,183 employees Illegal assistance or domination of labor
organizations was found in 53 cases and ordered stopped In 67 cases
the employer was ordered to under take collective bargaining
The Board found violations by unions in 174 cases, or 78 percent of
the 223 cases against unions In 29 of these cases the Board found
illegal secondary boycotts and ordered them halted In 80 cases the
Board ordered unions to cease iequirmg employers to extend illegal
assistance Nineteen other cases involved the illegal discharge of
employees, and backpay was ordered for 82 employees In the case
of 41 of these employees found to be entitled to backpay, the employer,