NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1939 › Disposition of representation cases of unaffiliated unions 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 | 283 | 50.4 | 108,915 | 47.7 | ||
| Cases received July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939 | 278 | 49.6 | 119,373 | 52.3 | ||
| Total cases on docket | 561 | 100.0 | 228,288 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases closed before formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 45 | 13.4 | 8.0 | 11,183 | 10.5 | 4.9 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 14 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 1,110 | 1.0 | .5 |
| (c) Pay-roll check | 18 | 5.4 | 3.2 | 1,353 | 1.3 | .6 |
| By dismissal | 84 | 25.1 | 15.0 | 46,085 | 43.2 | 20.2 |
| By withdrawal | 86 | 25.6 | 15.3 | 20,945 | 19.6 | 9.2 |
| Otherwise | 2 | .6 | .4 | 7,000 | 6.6 | 3.0 |
| Total cases closed before formal action | 249 | 74.3 | 44.4 | 87,676 | 82.2 | 38.4 |
| Cases closed after formal action: | ||||||
| By settlement before hearing: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 2 | .6 | .4 | 350 | .3 | .1 |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | 2 | .6 | .4 | 386 | .3 | .2 |
| (c) Pay-roll check | ||||||
| By settlement after hearing: | ||||||
| (a) Consent election | 2 | .6 | .4 | 109 | .1 | [1] |
| (b) Recognition of representatives | ||||||
| (c) Pay-roll check | 9 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 145 | .2 | .1 |
| By dismissal before hearing | ||||||
| By dismissal after hearing | ||||||
| By withdrawal before hearing | 1 | .3 | .1 | 175 | .2 | .1 |
| By withdrawal after hearing | 13 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 4,224 | 4.0 | 1.8 |
| By certification by Board without election | 3 | .9 | .5 | 1,612 | 1.5 | .7 |
| By certification by Board after election | 37 | 11.0 | 6.6 | 4,770 | 4.5 | 2.1 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board without election | 3 | .9 | .5 | 6,125 | 5.7 | 2.7 |
| By dismissal of petition by Board after election | 14 | 4.2 | 2.5 | 1,079 | 1.0 | .5 |
| Total cases closed after formal action | 86 | 25.7 | 15.3 | 18,975 | 17.8 | 8.3 |
| Total cases closed July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939 | 335 | 100.0 | 106,651 | 100.0 | ||
| Cases pending June 30, 1939 | 226 | 40.3 | 121,637 | 53.3 | ||
0 of 46 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 57. Seven 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. "Number of cases" and "Number of workers involved" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels, so they are repeated in both; the stub has no printed heading. Cell contents and doubtful readings: - "(a) Consent election" under "By settlement after hearing:", last column ("Total number of workers involved in cases on docket"): the cell holds a parenthesized raised 1, i.e. the footnote reference standing in for a value (footnote 1: "Less than 0.05 percent."). Transcribed as "(1)". - Rows whose cells hold only dash/leader rules are given as empty strings: "(c) Pay-roll check" under "By settlement before hearing:", "(b) Recognition of representatives" under "By settlement after hearing:", "By dismissal before hearing", and "By dismissal after hearing". Likewise the leader-dot rules in the "Total cases closed" / "Total number of workers involved in cases closed" columns of the two pending/received rows and the docket total, and in the two "on docket" percentage columns of the "Total cases closed July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939" row. - "Total cases closed July 1, 1938, to June 30, 1939", "Number of cases": two stray ink marks precede the figure in the scan ("-- 335"); the printed value is 335. - "By dismissal of petition by Board after election", "Total cases closed": printed 4.2, with a scan speck between the digits that makes it look like "4: 2". - Heading of the last column is degraded in the scan ("rumber"); read as "Total number of workers involved in cases on docket" to match the parallel column to its left. - Scattered stray specks appear in the left margin and in the "Cases closed after formal action" block; none alter a transcribed value. All printed totals and percentage columns check out arithmetically (cases 249 + 86 = 335; workers 87,676 + 18,975 = 106,651; 561 − 335 = 226; 228,288 − 106,651 = 121,637; each percentage column sums to 100.0), so no misprints are suspected.
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.