NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1989 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1989; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1989
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I Unfair labor practice cases: | |
| A. Major stages completed— | |
| 1. Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 45 |
| 2. Complaint to close of hearing | 133 |
| 3. Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 153 |
| 4. Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 259 |
| 5. Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 736 |
| B. Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision, September 30, 1989 | 339 |
| C. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1989 | 738 |
| 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 | 13 |
| 3. Close of hearing to— | |
| Board decision issued | 256 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 23 |
| 4. Filing of petition to— | |
| Board decision issued | 268 |
| Regional Director's decision issued | 45 |
| B. Age of cases pending Board decision, September 30, 1989 | 685 |
| C. Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision, September 30, 1989 | 73 |
p. 262. Two printed columns: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". Section lines (I, II, A, and the "3. Close of hearing to—" / "4. Filing of petition to—" lead-ins) carry no value, so their value cell is "". Row "I Unfair labor practice cases:" is printed with the roman numeral I apparently without a following period (unlike "II."); if a period is present it is lost in the scan. Row "1. Filing of petition of notice of hearing issued" is transcribed as printed; "of notice" looks like a misprint for "to notice of hearing issued" (compare the parallel wording in other years). Not corrected. A small stray ink mark (resembling an apostrophe) sits in the left margin beside "3. Close of hearing to—"; it is not a footnote marker and is omitted. The superscripts on "Age" in rows I.B, I.C (marker 1) and II.B, II.C (marker 2) are footnote markers and are written behind a caret after the word "Age". The two indented "Board decision issued" and "Regional Director's decision issued" labels appear twice, once under section 3 and once under section 4; they are kept as printed without adding the parent wording.
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.