NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1988 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1988; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1988
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I Unfair labor practice cases: | |
| A. Major stages completed— | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 46 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 127 |
| 3. Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 139 |
| 4. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 395 |
| 5. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 762 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 1988 | 391 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1988 | 611 |
| II. Representation cases. | |
| A. Major stages completed— | |
| 1. Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued | 8 |
| 2. Notice of hearing to close of hearing | 14 |
| 3. Close of hearing to— | |
| Board decision issued | 233 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 22 |
| 4. Filing of petition to— | |
| Board decision issued | 304 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 45 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1988 | 190 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 1988 | 57 |
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.
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.