In its oversight of union representation elections, the National Labor Relations Board seeks to create laboratory conditions to determine quot;the uninhibited desiresquot; of employees. Despite its comprehensive regulation of union and employer campaign conduct, however, the Board fails to...

For over sixty years, the National Labor Relations Board has followed the “laboratory conditions” doctrine in its regulation of representation elections. According to the doctrine, the Board must provide workers with an electoral “laboratory” in order to determine the “uninhibited...