NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1938 › Disposition of representation cases of C. I. O. unions on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938
Disposition of representation cases of C. I. O. unions on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938
| Number of cases | Percentage of— | Number of workers involved | Percentage of— | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cases | Total cases closed | Total cases on docket | Number of workers involved | Total number of workers involved in cases closed | Total number of workers involved in cases on docket | |
| Cases pending June 30, 1937 | 262 | 11.2 | 210,318 | 20.7 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 2,069 | 88.8 | 804,898 | 79.3 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 2,331 | 100.0 | 1,015,216 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 523 | 31.6 | 22.5 | 125,858 | 20.6 | 12.4 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 242 | 14.6 | 10.4 | 56,399 | 9.2 | 5.5 |
| (c) Pay roll check | 127 | 7.7 | 5.4 | 14,673 | 2.4 | 1.4 |
| By dismissal | 89 | 5.4 | 3.8 | 33,428 | 5.5 | 3.3 |
| By withdrawal | 374 | 22.6 | 16.1 | 164,056 | 26.9 | 16.2 |
| By transfer to other agencies | 18 | 1.1 | .8 | 3,737 | .6 | .4 |
| Total cases closed before formal action | 1,373 | 83.0 | 59.0 | 398,151 | 65.2 | 39.2 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 23 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 34,313 | 5.6 | 3.4 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 8 | .5 | .3 | 6,715 | 1.1 | .7 |
| (c) Pay roll check | 3 | .2 | .1 | 667 | .1 | .1 |
| By dismissal before issuance of Board decisions | 10 | .6 | .4 | 13,201 | 2.2 | 1.3 |
| By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision | 33 | 2.0 | 1.4 | 14,011 | 2.3 | 1.4 |
| By certification by Board without election | 63 | 3.8 | 2.7 | 49,149 | 8.1 | 4.8 |
| By certification by Board after election | 119 | 7.1 | 5.1 | 89,739 | 14.7 | 8.8 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board without election | 10 | .6 | .4 | 963 | .2 | .1 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board after election | 13 | .8 | .6 | 2,929 | .5 | .3 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 282 | 17.0 | 12.0 | 211,687 | 34.8 | 20.9 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 1,655 | 100.0 | 71.0 | 609,838 | 100.0 | 60.1 |
| Cases pending: | ||||||
| Before hearing | 439 | 18.8 | 222,651 | 21.9 | ||
| After hearing: | ||||||
| Awaiting decision | 185 | 8.0 | 155,737 | 15.3 | ||
| Awaiting certification | 52 | 2.2 | 26,990 | 2.7 | ||
| Total cases pending June 30, 1938 | 676 | 29.0 | 405,378 | 39.9 | ||
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Reader’s notes
p. 53. Seven columns: stub plus Number of cases, two "Percentage of—" columns (Total cases closed; Total cases on docket), Number of workers involved, and two further "Percentage of—" columns (Total number of workers involved in cases closed; Total number of workers involved in cases on docket). "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels, so each is repeated in both; the stub carries no printed heading, so its heading cells are empty. The spanner "Percentage of—" appears twice, over columns 3-4 and over columns 6-7. In the "Total cases closed" and "Total number of workers involved in cases closed" columns, the rows for cases pending/received, total cases on docket, and all the pending rows hold only leader dots; these are transcribed as "". The printed decimals carry a typographic space after the point (e.g. "11. 2", "20. 7"); these are written without the space. Decimals under 1 are printed without a leading zero (".8", ".5") and are kept that way. No row-label, heading or value carries a footnote marker, and no footnotes are printed under the table. Legibility: "2,331" in the "Total cases on docket" row and "1,015,216" in the same row are struck by a horizontal rule artifact in the scan but are legible and confirmed by arithmetic (262 + 2,069 and 210,318 + 804,898). The "Total cases closed" value for "By dismissal before issuance of Board decisions" reads as ".6" (it could be mistaken for ".0") and is confirmed by the column sum. All printed totals verified against their components: the six before-formal-action rows sum to 1,373 cases / 398,151 workers / 83.0 / 59.0 / 65.2 / 39.2; the nine after-formal-action rows sum to 282 / 211,687 / 17.0 / 12.0 / 34.8 / 20.9; the two closed subtotals sum to 1,655 / 609,838 / 100.0 / 71.0 / 100.0 / 60.1; the three pending rows sum to 676 / 405,378 / 29.0 / 39.9; and closed plus pending reproduce the docket totals 2,331 / 1,015,216 / 100.0 / 100.0. No misprints found.
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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.