Accretion petitions filed with the NLRB allow unions to add employees to an existing bargaining unit without a representation election. This helps preserve industrial stability by allowing adjustments in bargaining units when new jobs are created, without requiring an adversarial election. This has historically been applied narrowly because it infringes on an employee’s right to…

ISS Facility Services Inc. and IBT Local 210 (Teamsters) violated several sections of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when they encouraged janitorial employees at JFK Airport’s Terminal 2 to join the Teamsters. A union official further violated the NLRA by threatening employees with termination unless they signed the dues checkoff authorization cards. ISS provides…