A group of manufacturing employees unionized in January. By June, they were convinced that they had made a mistake and circulated a petition to decertify the election. Thirty-five percent of the employees signed the petition. It is likely that the NLRB will allow the employees to hold a decertification election before the end of the year.

Decertify

The process through which a union is officially stripped of its status as the representative of a group of workers, often following a vote among the workers themselves.

NLRB

Stands for the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency in the United States that enforces labor laws in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices.

Decertification Election

A voting process in which employees can remove union representation from their workplace.