NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1939 › Disposition of all representation cases on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939
Disposition of all representation cases on docket during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939
| 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, 1938 | 1,264 | 35.6 | 596,988 | 55.3 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1938 to July 1, 1939 | 2,286 | 64.4 | 482,182 | 44.7 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 3,550 | 100.0 | 1,079,170 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 454 | 19.4 | 12.8 | 79,330 | 13.5 | 7.3 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 257 | 11.0 | 7.2 | 34,264 | 5.8 | 3.2 |
| (c) Pay-roll check | 241 | 10.3 | 6.8 | 23,856 | 4.1 | 2.2 |
| By dismissal | 264 | 11.3 | 7.5 | 81,032 | 13.9 | 7.5 |
| By withdrawal | 480 | 20.5 | 13.5 | 170,960 | 29.2 | 15.8 |
| Otherwise | 5 | .2 | .1 | 8,209 | 1.4 | .8 |
| Total cases closed before formal action | 1,701 | 72.7 | 47.9 | 397,651 | 67.9 | 36.8 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement before hearing: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 6 | .3 | .2 | 1,708 | .3 | .2 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 8 | .3 | .2 | 1,324 | .2 | .1 |
| (c) Pay-roll check | 1 | [1] | [1] | 1,300 | .2 | .1 |
| By settlement after hearing | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 18 | .8 | .5 | 6,272 | 1.1 | .6 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 2 | .1 | .1 | 3,515 | .6 | .3 |
| (c) Pay-roll check | 10 | .4 | .3 | 170 | .3 | [1] |
| By dismissal before hearing | 5 | .2 | .1 | 558 | .1 | .1 |
| By dismissal after hearing | 14 | .6 | .4 | 2,153 | .4 | .2 |
| By withdrawal before hearing | 25 | 1.1 | .7 | 4,298 | .7 | .4 |
| By withdrawal after hearing | 41 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 13,601 | 2.3 | 1.3 |
| By certification by Board without election | 112 | 4.8 | 3.2 | 44,622 | 7.6 | 4.1 |
| By certification by Board after election | 252 | 10.8 | 7.1 | 78,550 | 13.4 | 7.3 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board without election | 72 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 18,355 | 3.1 | 1.7 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board after election | 72 | 3.1 | 2.0 | 10,776 | 1.8 | 1.0 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 638 | 27.3 | 18.0 | 187,202 | 32.1 | 17.4 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1938 to July 1, 1939 | 2,339 | 100.0 | 584,853 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases pending June 30, 1939 | 1,211 | 34.1 | 494,317 | 45.8 | ||
- 1 Less than 0.05 percent.
0 of 54 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 51. Seven printed columns: stub, "Number of cases", two percentage columns under the first "Percentage of—" spanner, "Number of workers involved", and two percentage columns under the second "Percentage of—" spanner. The stub column has no printed heading, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty; "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings and are repeated in both levels. Four cells contain only a parenthesized superscript 1 — the footnote reference standing in place of a value (footnote 1 = "Less than 0.05 percent."). They are transcribed as "(1)": row "(c) Pay-roll check" under "By settlement before hearing" in both the "Total cases closed" and "Total cases on docket" columns, and row "(c) Pay-roll check" under "By settlement after hearing" in the "Total number of workers involved in cases on docket" column. The row "By settlement after hearing" is a section line: its label is followed by leader dots and a dashed rule runs across all six value columns, so all its value cells are "". A stray ink/pen mark resembling a slash appears in the "Number of cases" column just left of the 72 on the row "By dismissal of petition by Board after election"; it is not part of the printed value. All printed totals are internally consistent (e.g. 454+257+241+264+480+5 = 1,701; 1,701+638 = 2,339; 3,550−2,339 = 1,211), so no misprints are suspected.
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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.