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Representation Petitions - RC
Employees or a union may file a petition for a representation election (RC) after collecting signatures from at least 30% of workers in the potential bargaining unit. Petitions that are not withdrawn or dismissed result in an NLRB-conducted election. A majority of votes decides the outcome. Please note: Some petitions filed in a given year may not have an election until a subsequent year. Thus, the number of petitions may not equal the total number of dispositions in a given year.
Steven Davis
Judge Davis has been an NLRB judge for over 30 years, having been appointed in July of 1981. He had previously served as an NLRB field attorney with the Brooklyn Regional Office, and as a review and litigation attorney with the New York State Labor Relations Board. He also served for approximately 2 years as an SSA judge before transferring to the NLRB. He received a B.S. degree from New York University, where he majored in labor economics. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Toledo College of Law in 1969, where he served as Associate Editor of the Law Review.
Paula S. Sawyer
In 2016, Paula S. Sawyer was appointed to serve as the Regional Director in the Region 27 Office in Denver. A career NLRB employee, Ms. Sawyer has been serving as Regional Attorney in Region 5.
Paul J. Murphy
Paul Murphy was appointed Regional Director of the Buffalo Regional Office (Region 3) in 2017. He began his career with the National Labor Relations Board as a co-op Field Examiner in Cleveland (Region 8) in 1979 and returned there as a full-time employee in 1980. He transferred to Region 3 in 1982. He was promoted to Supervisory Examiner in 1997 and Region 3's Assistant to the Regional Director in 2007.
Patricia K. Nachand
Patricia Nachand was named Regional Director for the Region 25 Office in Indianapolis in March 2016. A native of the Indianapolis, Indiana area, Ms. Nachand received her B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Indianapolis in 1983 and 1997, respectively. She began her Field Examiner career in the Indianapolis office in 1981 after first working for the Agency as a receptionist, stenographer, and labor-management relations aide while attending college at night.
Eric M. Fine
Judge Fine was appointed in March of 1999. He previously worked for 18 years (1979–1997) as an NLRB trial attorney, trial specialist, and supervisor in the Baltimore Regional Office, during which period he also spent time in Operations Management. Before that he worked for 2 years at the NLRB headquarters in the General Counsel’s Office of Appeals (1977–1979). He was the General Counsel's lead counsel in the National Football League case, an approximately 100 day trial resulting from the 1987 players strike.