REPRESENTATION ISSUES; OBJECTION TO ELECTIONS – In General

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For election objections to be sustained, some affect on the election result must either be shown or logically inferred; p. 28, proposed dec. The Board has held that even demonstration of unlawful conduct in the election environment is but "threshold question"; p. 28, proposed dec. In deciding whether to set aside the election result, the Board will look "upon the totality of circumstances raised in each case and, when appropriate, accumulative effect of the conduct which forms basis for the relief requested"; p. 28, proposed dec. As the threat by a union official was remote in time to the election and was not widely circulated where a substantial number of voters even knew about it, no impact in the election could be inferred. If complaint had alleged that the threat was an unfair practice such a finding would have been warranted; pp. 9-10; p. 34, proposed dec. complaint had alleged that the threat was an unfair practice such a finding would have been warranted; pp. 9-10; p. 34, proposed dec.