NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1938 › Disposition of representation cases of unaffiliated unions on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938
Disposition of representation cases of unaffiliated 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 | 205 | 31.3 | 86,921 | 40.8 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 449 | 68.7 | 126,024 | 59.2 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 654 | 100.0 | 212,945 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 45 | 12.0 | 6.9 | 17,135 | 17.1 | 8.1 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 39 | 10.4 | 6.0 | 5,284 | 5.3 | 2.5 |
| (c) Payroll check | 10 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 4,543 | 4.5 | 2.1 |
| By dismissal | 107 | 28.6 | 16.3 | 39,190 | 39.0 | 18.4 |
| By withdrawal | 91 | 24.3 | 13.9 | 18,602 | 18.5 | 8.7 |
| By transfer to other agencies | 1 | .3 | .2 | 24 | ||
| Total cases closed before formal action | 293 | 78.3 | 44.8 | 84,778 | 84.4 | 39.8 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | ||||||
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 11 | 3.0 | 1.7 | 973 | 1.0 | .5 |
| (c) Payroll check | ||||||
| By dismissal before issuance of Board decision | 40 | 10.7 | 6.1 | 3,298 | 3.3 | 1.5 |
| By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision | 3 | .8 | .5 | 3,975 | 3.9 | 1.9 |
| By certification by Board without election | 10 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 1,340 | 1.3 | .6 |
| By certification by Board after election | 10 | 2.7 | 1.5 | 2,680 | 2.7 | 1.3 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board without election | 5 | 1.3 | .8 | 2,671 | 2.7 | 1.3 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board after election | 2 | .5 | .3 | 690 | .7 | .3 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 81 | 21.7 | 12.4 | 15,627 | 15.6 | 7.4 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938 | 374 | 100.0 | 57.2 | 100,405 | 100.0 | 47.2 |
| Cases pending: | ||||||
| Before hearing | 231 | 35.3 | 97,910 | 46.0 | ||
| After hearing: | ||||||
| Awaiting decision | 20 | 3.1 | 12,111 | 5.6 | ||
| Awaiting certification | 29 | 4.4 | 2,519 | 1.2 | ||
| Total cases pending June 30, 1938 | 280 | 42.8 | 112,540 | 52.8 | ||
0 of 46 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 54. Seven columns: stub, "Number of cases", two columns under the first "Percentage of—" spanner (Total cases closed; Total cases on docket), "Number of workers involved" (a tall heading spanning both header levels), and two columns under the second "Percentage of—" spanner (Total number of workers involved in cases closed; Total number of workers involved in cases on docket). The stub has no printed heading, so its header cells are empty. Rows that carry only dash rules are given as empty cells: "(a) Consent election" and "(c) Payroll check" under "Cases closed after formal action:" have no values in any column, and "By transfer to other agencies" has dash rules in the two workers-percentage columns. The two "Percentage of total cases closed" and "Percentage of total number of workers involved in cases closed" columns are likewise dashed (empty) for every pending/docket row. The letters (a), (b), (c) in the settlement sub-item labels are printed in italic; I transcribed them as plain parentheses. In "By withdrawal before issuance of Board decision" the scan shows a stray raised dot between "before" and "issuance"; it is a typesetting speck, not a footnote marker, and is omitted. All printed totals cross-check: 205+449=654; 86,921+126,024=212,945; the before-formal items sum to 293 and 84,778; the after-formal items sum to 81 and 15,627; 293+81=374 and 84,778+15,627=100,405; the pending items sum to 280 and 112,540; 374+280=654 and 100,405+112,540=212,945. No misprints detected. One minor rounding oddity as printed: 11 of 374 cases is shown as 3.0 percent (2.9 by computation), but it is consistent with the printed column total of 21.7, and is transcribed 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.