NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

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If the parties filing the charges or petitions did not choose to withdraw
them when informed by the regional director that in his opinion
no further action was warranted, the director issued orders formally
refusing to issue complaintst and recommended to the Board, in representation
cases
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that the petitions be dismissed.
In a majority of cases settlements in compliance with the act were
brought about through the voluntary cooperation of the employer, the
complaining union, and the agents of the Board.
In some instances charges or petitions involving the same employer
were filed in more than one regional office. In most of such cases all
of the charges or petitions were transferred to one of the regional
offices thus securing more expeditious and complete disposition.
After formal action taken by the Board, complaint cases may be
disposed of either by compliance with the recommendations of the
intermediate report of the trial examiner, after hearing, or by compliance
with Board decisions and orders. Even after formal action,
in many instances, cases were settled, withdrawn, or dismissed.
Settlements in compliance with the act were secured in 4,621 cases,2
or 52.2 percent of the total cases closed. A total of 1,439 cases, or 16.3
percent of the cases closed, was dismissed either by the regional directors
or by the trial examiners during hearings. Parties filing charges
and petitions withdrew 2,345 cases, 2 or 26.5 percent of all cases closed.
The remaining 446 cases, or 5 percent of the total cases disposed
of, were closed after the issuance of Board decisions and orders.
Included in these 446 cases are 29 cases in which there was compliance
with the Board's orders, 75 cases which were dismissed by Board
decision, and 342 cases which were closed as a result of the Board's
certification of unions representing a majority of the workers in the
appropriate units.
Table I shows the cases on docket, the number of workers involved,
and various methods by which cases were disposed of during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1938, as well as the total number of cases pending
on that date.
2 This figure includes 12 cases in which the respondents agreed to comply with the recommendations
of the trial examiner.
a This figure includes 125 cases closed by transfer to other agencies or by transfer from
one regional office to another.