QUESTION CONCERNING REPRESENTATION
(QCR).
Refers to a petition in which a union seeks to be the exclusive representative of an appropriate unit of employees, or in which employees in an existing unit want to decertify the incumbent union. The filing of such a petition is said to raise a question concerning representation--i.e., whether, and by whom, unit employees are to be represented. Such petitions are distinguished from petitions seeking to clarify the composition of existing units (e.g., whether certain individuals are in or out of the unit) or to amend the names of the parties to the exclusive bargaining relationship. See