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Disposition of all representation cases

printed as Table 6 · source page 31 · nlrb1937_p0031_t0

Number of—Percentage of—
CasesWorkers involvedTotal casesCases in category
Cases disposed of before hearing:
By withdrawal of petition10715,7188.320.8
By dismissal of petition2214,6881.74.2
By transfer and consolidation11860.82.1
By settlement:
(a) Consent elections179109,13914.034.9
(b) Recognition of representatives19447,99415.238.0
Total cases closed before hearing513188,39940.2100.0
Cases closed after hearing:
By withdrawal of petition7261.510.0
By dismissal of petition6651.48.7
By settlement1210,311.917.4
By issuance of certification without election6626.48.7
By certification after election3717,6232.853.6
By refusal of certification after election150[2]1.5
Total cases closed after hearing6929,5225.4100.0
Cases pending:
Before hearing580304,39145.583.8
After hearing:
Awaiting decision or order, including certification5218,9774.17.5
Awaiting compliance with orders or decisions issued608,9404.78.7
Total cases pending692332,30854.4100.0
Total representation cases1,274550,229100.0

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  1. 1 Includes three cases in which consent elections were held.
  2. 2 Less than 0.1 percent.

0 of 36 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 31. Column structure: a blank stub heading over the row labels, then "Number of—" spanning Cases and Workers involved, and "Percentage of—" spanning Total cases and Cases in category. "By settlement" (Cases closed after hearing): the Cases cell is printed as a raised 1 followed by 12, i.e. the value 12 carrying footnote marker 1; transcribed as 12^1. "By refusal of certification after election", Total cases column: the cell holds only a parenthesized raised 2 (a footnote reference standing in for a value, footnote 2 = "Less than 0.1 percent"); transcribed as (2). The raised digit is faint in the scan but the footnote text confirms it is 2. "Total representation cases", Cases in category column: printed as a dash rule, transcribed as "". The raised marker on the second footnote prints like a 3 in this scan but is 2, matching the reference in the body of the table. Arithmetic checks pass as printed: the Cases and Workers involved columns sum correctly to each section total (513 / 188,399; 69 / 29,522; 692 / 332,308) and to the grand total (1,274 / 550,229), and 40.2 + 5.4 + 54.4 = 100.0. Crop artifacts not transcribed: a cut-off partial line of running text at the very top left ("...cases."), and, below a short separator rule beneath the table footnotes, the page footnote "19 See footnote 1, p. 15 supra." — that rule marks it as a footnote to the page's running text rather than to this table, so it is excluded from `footnotes`. A stray ink dot follows "69" in the Cases column of "Total cases closed after hearing"; it is not read as a marker. Several small dots in the left margin are scan noise.

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Source page 31 of NLRB FY1937 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1937, p. 31.

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.