[1] The ALRB has two functions: To conduct, oversee, and certify representation elections, and to investigate unfair labor practice (ULP) charges and pursue remedies.
[2] In 2013, farmworkers for one of California's largest fruit growers requested the ALRB to supervise an election to decertify the United Farm Workers as their representative, citing the union's failure to act in their interests.
A California Superior Court judge hearing a related case said that “the ALRB seems to be pre-deciding” the farm workers’ election results.
[7] A federal court found in July 2014 that the ALRB committed an “en masse segregation of voters” to intimidate the workers from de-certifying the UFW,[disputed – discuss] and that ALRB's regional director deliberately “delayed completion of his investigation” of alleged fraud and unfair labor practices in order to prevent a count of the workers’ ballots.
In a separate case, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeal ruled in May, 2015, that ALRB violated the law and the "equal protection principles of the U.S. Constitution by seeking to impose a contract on farm employers and workers.