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Disposition of all complaint cases
| Number of— | Percentage of— | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Workers involved | Total cases | Cases in category | |
| Cases disposed of before issuance of complaint: | ||||
| By settlement | 1,003 | 147,596 | 32.1 | 60.1 |
| By withdrawal of charge | 422 | 55,734 | 13.5 | 25.3 |
| By refusal to issue complaint | 234 | 26,309 | 7.4 | 14.0 |
| By transfer | 9 | 2,626 | .2 | [2] |
| Total disposed of before issuance of complaint | 1,668 | 232,265 | 53.3 | 100.0 |
| Cases disposed of after issuance of complaint: | ||||
| By consolidation | 31 | [2] | 33.0 | |
| By settlement before hearing | 15 | 972 | [2] | 16.0 |
| By settlement during hearing | 11 | 907 | [2] | 11.7 |
| By settlement after hearing | 15 | 8,979 | [2] | 16.0 |
| By dismissal after hearing by Board or trial examiners | 8 | 850 | [2] | 8.5 |
| By withdrawal of charges after hearing | 3 | 1,327 | [2] | 3.1 |
| By intermediate report finding no violation | 2 | 21 | [2] | 2.1 |
| By compliance with intermediate report | 6 | 604 | [2] | 6.4 |
| By compliance with decision or order | 3 | 3,961 | [2] | 3.1 |
| Total disposed of after issuance of complaint | 94 | 17,621 | 3.0 | 100.0 |
| Cases pending: | ||||
| Before hearing | 1,276 | 662,880 | 40.8 | 93.6 |
| After hearing: | ||||
| Awaiting intermediate report | 19 | 8,796 | [2] | 1.4 |
| Awaiting decision | 31 | 8,689 | [2] | 2.3 |
| Awaiting compliance with cease and desist orders | 36 | 14,335 | 1.0 | 2.6 |
| Total cases pending | 1,362 | 694,720 | 43.6 | 100.0 |
| Total complaint cases | 3,124 | 944,606 | 100.0 | |
- 1 Includes 12 cases in which consent elections were held.
- 2 Less than 0.1 percent.
0 of 41 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 26. Stub column has no printed heading, so cell 0 of both header levels is empty. In the "By settlement" row the footnote marker 1 is printed as a raised digit to the LEFT of 1,003; it is transcribed as 1,003^1. Cells printed as a parenthesised raised 2 — "(2)" — are footnote references standing in place of a percentage (footnote 2: "Less than 0.1 percent"); they are transcribed with the printed parentheses. Two apparent inconsistencies in the source, transcribed as printed: (a) "By transfer" / Cases in category shows (2) although 9 of 1,668 is about 0.5 percent; (b) every row of the "after issuance of complaint" block shows (2) under Total cases although e.g. 31 of 3,124 is about 1.0 percent. Blank-looking cells that carry only a dash rule — "By consolidation" / Workers involved and "Total complaint cases" / Cases in category — are given as "". Column totals cross-check: Cases 1,668 + 94 + 1,362 = 3,124 and Workers involved 232,265 + 17,621 + 694,720 = 944,606, both as printed. Minor rounding discrepancies elsewhere (7.4 vs 7.5 for 234/3,124; 93.6 vs 93.7 for 1,276/1,362; 1.0 vs 1.2 for 36/3,124) are left exactly as printed.
Source image
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.