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2025 Unfair Labor Practice Processing
Mission Statement Define and resolve unfair labor practice disputes between educational employers and their employees and exclusive representatives through investigation, mediation, and adjudication.
Program Goals and Objectives
  1. Process unfair labor practice charges, facilitate resolution of disputes between parties, hold hearings, and issue decisions.
    1. Conduct unfair labor practice charge investigations.
    2. Issue dismissal orders or complaints when appropriate.
    3. Conduct administrative hearings and issue recommended decisions and orders.
    4. Mediate unfair labor practice allegations to avoid litigation.
    5. Process fair-share fee objections, including oversight of escrow, consolidation of objections, and determination of appropriate fair-share fees.
    6. Monitor the status of collective bargaining negotiations, including managing required notices, posting parties' final offers on the Board's website, and invoking mediation when appropriate.
Source of Funds Personal Property Tax Replacement Fund Statutory Authority 115 ILCS 5/1 et seq.
Fiscal Year 2026 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2025 Actual Fiscal Year 2025 Target/Projected Fiscal Year 2024 Actual Fiscal Year 2023 Actual
Input Indicators
Total expenditures - all sources (in thousands) $ 1,549.7 $ 738.2 $ 1,395.2 $ 621.0 $ 547.3
Total expenditures - state appropriated funds (in thousands) $ 1,549.7 $ 738.2 $ 1,395.2 $ 621.0 $ 547.3
Average monthly full-time equivalents 7.0 2.0 7.0 2.0 2.0
Output Indicators
Number of cases pending at the start of the fiscal year 60.0 54.0 63.0 59.0 67.0
Number of charges filed 96.0 100.0 94.0 92.0 93.0
Outcome Indicators
Executive Director's recommended decision and order 43.0 53.0 31.0 55.0 22.0
Administrative law judges' recommended decision and order 7.0 11.0 4.0 2.0 8.0
Complaint and notice of hearing 28.0 26.0 28.0 20.0 38.0
Number of cases mediated by Board agents 1.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 1.0
Withdrawal by settlement agreement 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Closure by withdrawal of charge 43.0 43.0 38.0 52.0 33.0

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