1 - National Labor Relations Board

Operations in Fiscal Year 1969 3
Chart 2
ULP CASE INTAKE
(Charges and Situations Filed)
18,000
12,000
6,000
I 1 I I I I I I
0
Fiscal
Year
i I 1 I I I I
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
CHARGES
SITUATIONS
11,357 12,132 13,479 14,166 15,620 15,800 15,933 17,040 17,816 18,651
9,114 10,592 11,877 /2,719 13,978 14,423 14,539 15,499 /5,287 17,045
On August 1, 1968, Howard Jenkins, Jr., began his second
5-year term as a Board Member. His term in office will extend
through August 27, 1973.
Although the Act administered by the NLRB has become complex,
a basic national policy remains the same. Section 1 of the
Act concludes, as it has since 1935, that: "It is hereby declared
to be the policy of the United States to eliminate the causes of
certain substantial obstructions to the free flow of commerce and
to mitigate and eliminate these obstructions when they have
occurred by encouraging the practice and procedure of collective
bargaining and by protecting the exercise by workers of full
freedom of association, self-organization, and designation of representatives
of their own choosing, for the purpose of negotiating
the terms and conditions of their employment or other mutual
aid or protection."
Under the statute the NLRB has two primary functions—(1)
to determine by Agency-conducted secret ballot elections whether