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Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1988; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1988

printed as Table 23 · source page 261 · nlrb1988_p0261_t0

StageMedian days
I Unfair labor practice cases:
A. Major stages completed—
1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint46
2. Complaint to close of hearing127
3. Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision139
4. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision395
5. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision762
B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 1988391
C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1988611
II. Representation cases.
A. Major stages completed—
1. Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued8
2. Notice of hearing to close of hearing14
3. Close of hearing to—
Board decision issued233
Regional Director's decision issued22
4. Filing of petition to—
Board decision issued304
Regional Director's decision issued45
B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1988190
C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 198857

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  1. 1 From filing of charge.
  2. 2 From filing of petition.
Reader’s notes

p. 261. Two printed columns only: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". Row "1. Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued" is transcribed as printed; the second "of" is almost certainly a misprint for "to" (compare the parallel wording in the other stage lines). The Roman numerals are printed inconsistently in the source: "I Unfair labor practice cases:" has no period after the numeral and ends in a colon, while "II. Representation cases." has a period after the numeral and ends in a period. Both are kept as printed. A small stray ink mark (resembling a comma or an apostrophe) floats in the white space above the line "1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint", roughly three-quarters of the way across the stub column. It is not attached to any text and appears to be a scan/printing artifact rather than a footnote marker, so it is not transcribed. The scan is slightly degraded, so some dotted "i" characters read as "ı" (e.g. "complaınt", "admınıstratıve", "judge's"); these have been normalized to the obviously intended spellings.

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Source page 261 of NLRB FY1988 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1988, p. 261.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.