Opinion ID: 186939
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Compromising Board Neutrality

Text: 27 U-Haul's next argument is that when Don Collette, a well known Union advocate and organizer, came into the polling place to vote, his overfriendly greeting of the Board agent supervising the election suggested to the employees that the Board was not neutral. The Board responds: The law is that an election will be set aside, as explained by this court, if a Board agent acts in a way to destroy confidence in the Board's election process, or [in a way that] could reasonably be interpreted as impugning the election standards, N. of Mkt. Senior Servs., Inc. v. NLRB, 204 F.3d 1163, 1168 (D.C.Cir.2000) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted, alteration in original). In the cited case, the Board agent sent Union officials into the employer's facility to tell employees when to vote, which certainly may have given the impression that the Board had ceded significant authority to the Union over the conduct of the election. Id. at 1169. 28 U-Haul does not adduce any precedent for the proposition that a union adherent's conduct can call the apparent neutrality of the Board or its agent into doubt. Nor are the facts of this case so compelling as to show the Board abused its discretion in concluding that Collette's glad-handing did not compromise the Board's appearance of neutrality.