Jim Wimberly attended a presentation by the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Richard Griffin, in San Diego, California, on November 11, 2015. Griffin presented up-to-date election statistics on petitions filed for elections with the NLRB for the first six months under the new quickie election rules, running from mid-April to mid-October. These statistics indicate how effective the "quickie rules" are in reducing the amount of time management has to deal with a union petition prior to an election. The stated those results will be as follows:
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