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Operations in Fiscal Year 1969 5<br />

decertify unions as bargaining agents as well as voting to determine<br />

whether a union shall continue to have the right to make<br />

a union-shop contract with an employer.<br />

In handling unfair labor practice cases and elections, the<br />

Agency is concerned with the adjustment of labor disputes either<br />

by way of investigation and informal settlements or through its<br />

quasi-judicial proceedings. Congress created the Agency in 1935<br />

because labor disputes could and did threaten the health of the<br />

economy. In the 1947 and 1959 amendments to the Act, Congress<br />

Chart 4<br />

NUMBER AND AGE OF UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE CASES<br />

PENDING UNDER PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATION,<br />

MONTH TO MONTH<br />

2,600<br />

MEDIAN NO. OF ULP CASES PENDING 2,313<br />

2,234<br />

2,000<br />

1,619 1675<br />

1,825<br />

2,035<br />

1,500<br />

1,208<br />

1,322<br />

1,000<br />

1,051<br />

998<br />

500<br />

Cases<br />

0<br />

Days<br />

10<br />

20<br />

30<br />

40<br />

50<br />

60<br />

Fiscal<br />

Year<br />

23 21 22 2/1 23 25 26 27 26 25<br />

MEDIAN AGE (DAYS)<br />

1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

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