The NLRB recently made public its NLRB Strategic Plan FY 2019-FY2022 wherein it
states it wants to reduce time to handle cases before it by 5% per
year at each stage of the case processing. The Strategic Plan
provides an excellent snapshot of NLRB operations (page 3) but not
much can be read into, or from, this document, which is long on
aspiration and short on detail. It was issued pursuant to GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 which makes it
a requirement for all federal agencies to submit a strategic plan
identifying, among other things, "general goals and
objectives."
The NLRB always has been driven by metrics. All one has to do is
read the basic summary of data about the agency and its operations
contained on page 3 to see that with a staff of only 1,327 (70% of
whom are in the field), it handles 20,000 new cases per year, which
can only be characterized as efficient (perhaps more than
efficient).