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n October 14, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced that the number of union organizing petitions filed from October 1, 2023, to September 30, 2024, increased nearly 30% from the same period the year before and more than doubled from the same period in 2021.
Why Have Union Certification Petitions Increased? A s
ignificant factor driving the increase of union certification petitions is the NLRB’s August 2023 Cemex Construction Materials Pacific LLP decision. Cemex shifted the burden of proving claims of support from uni
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ns to employers. Before Cemex, the burden was on unions to prove majority status by filing union authorization cards signed by