NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1940 › Disposition of all cases on docket during the fiscal year: by types of complainant or petitioner
| Docket record and method of disposition | Cases | Total number of workers involved | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | Individual persons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docket record and method of disposition | Total number | Percent of cases closed | Total number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved | Number of cases | Number of workers involved |
| Cases pending June 30, 1939 | 4,113 | 1,420,486 | 1,531 | 233,479 | 2,025 | 980,243 | 322 | 201,014 | 237 | 5,750 | |
| Cases received July 1, 1939–June 30, 1940 | 6,177 | 1,107,923 | 2,933 | 451,875 | 2,201 | 506,989 | 486 | 97,780 | 558 | 51,279 | |
| Total cases on docket during fiscal year | 10,290 | 2,528,409 | 4,464 | 685,354 | 4,226 | 1,487,232 | 808 | 298,794 | 795 | 57,029 | |
| Cases closed before formal action, total | 6,098 | 82.9 | 1,090,140 | 2,827 | 411,948 | 2,242 | 536,468 | 440 | 111,203 | 591 | 30,521 |
| Settled | 2,805 | 38.1 | 325,314 | 1,487 | 116,377 | 1,035 | 184,767 | 155 | 16,647 | 129 | 7,523 |
| Dismissed | 1,244 | 16.9 | 353,215 | 430 | 78,603 | 437 | 213,444 | 129 | 42,279 | 249 | 18,889 |
| Withdrawn | 2,020 | 27.5 | 397,007 | 896 | 210,588 | 761 | 137,076 | 154 | 45,237 | 209 | 4,106 |
| Otherwise closed before formal action | 29 | .4 | 14,604 | 14 | 6,380 | 9 | 1,181 | 2 | 7,040 | 4 | 3 |
| Cases closed after formal action, total | 1,256 | 17.1 | 397,880 | 457 | 80,331 | 639 | 269,709 | 129 | 45,509 | 32 | 2,331 |
| Before hearing: | |||||||||||
| Settled | 56 | .8 | 11,686 | 23 | 1,971 | 26 | 9,376 | 4 | 255 | 3 | 84 |
| Dismissed | 8 | .1 | 1,666 | 2 | 76 | 4 | 1,468 | 2 | 122 | ||
| Withdrawn | 23 | .3 | 4,585 | 7 | 564 | 11 | 3,803 | 4 | 168 | 1 | 50 |
| After hearing: | |||||||||||
| Settled | 27 | .4 | 8,852 | 9 | 1,336 | 17 | 6,416 | 1 | 1,100 | ||
| Dismissed | 19 | .3 | 3,372 | 8 | 1,171 | 10 | 2,200 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Withdrawn | 49 | .7 | 8,228 | 31 | 1,544 | 13 | 3,583 | 5 | 3,101 | ||
| Compliance with intermediate report | 26 | .3 | 3,042 | 9 | 827 | 13 | 1,671 | 2 | 442 | 2 | 102 |
| Closed because of company liquidation | 3 | 95 | 2 | 81 | 1 | 14 | |||||
| Otherwise closed after hearing | 9 | .1 | 4,191 | 4 | 467 | 3 | 3,634 | 2 | 90 | ||
| After Board decision: | |||||||||||
| Dismissed | 231 | 3.1 | 72,815 | 77 | 10,139 | 124 | 54,267 | 23 | 8,066 | 7 | 343 |
| Withdrawn | 32 | .4 | 4,984 | 15 | 1,322 | 17 | 3,662 | ||||
| Certification issued | 414 | 5.6 | 146,732 | 161 | 31,957 | 180 | 85,235 | 66 | 29,318 | 7 | 222 |
| Compliance secured | 118 | 1.6 | 34,262 | 44 | 4,866 | 63 | 27,705 | 6 | 810 | 5 | 881 |
| Otherwise closed after decision | 26 | .4 | 4,944 | 6 | 663 | 18 | 4,204 | 2 | 77 | ||
| After court action: | |||||||||||
| Dismissed | 6 | .1 | 3,663 | 2 | 1,037 | 4 | 2,626 | ||||
| Compliance secured | 206 | 2.9 | 84,108 | 55 | 22,105 | 134 | 59,395 | 13 | 2,081 | 5 | 527 |
| Otherwise closed after court action | 3 | 655 | 2 | 205 | 1 | 450 | |||||
| Total cases closed during fiscal year | 7,354 | 100.0 | 1,488,020 | 3,284 | 492,279 | 2,881 | 806,177 | 569 | 156,712 | 623 | 32,852 |
| Cases pending June 30, 1940 | 2,936 | 1,040,389 | 1,180 | 193,075 | 1,345 | 681,055 | 239 | 142,082 | 172 | 24,177 | |
242 of 252 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 27. 12 columns. "Total number of workers involved" is a tall single heading spanning both heading levels, so it is repeated in both; the stub heading likewise. The footnotes are printed in two columns under the table (1-4 at left, 5-7 at right); they are listed here in marker order. Superscript markers: the raised digits are small and broken in this scan, and 2 vs 3 is the main doubt. Where the mark was ambiguous I assigned it from the footnote wording, which is fully self-consistent: footnote 2 covers one A.F. of L./C.I.O. joint case plus one C.I.O./unaffiliated joint case, footnote 3 only the A.F. of L./C.I.O. one, footnote 4 only the C.I.O./unaffiliated one. On that basis the markers on "Cases pending June 30, 1939" (Total number 2, A. F. of L. 3, C. I. O. 2, Unaffiliated 4), on "Cases closed before formal action, total" (Total number 2, A. F. of L. 3, C. I. O. 2, Unaffiliated 4) and on the first "Settled" row (all three 3) are the readings a plain pixel-level look left open; the 5/6/7 markers and the "Dismissed" row's 4s are legible. Every marker sits before its number in print; per instructions it is written after the value behind a caret. Arithmetic cross-checks all balance as printed: pending + received = total on docket in all ten numeric columns; the four "before formal action" detail rows sum to 6,098 / 82.9 / 1,090,140 and to each panel's totals; the seventeen "after formal action" detail rows sum to 1,256 / 17.1 / 397,880 and to each panel's totals; before + after = 7,354 / 100.0 / 1,488,020; docket minus closed = the June 30, 1940 pending line. No misprints detected. "Otherwise closed before formal action" shows 4 cases against only 3 workers in the Individual persons panel; that is as printed and it is what makes that column sum to 30,521. Percent-of-cases-closed values under 1 are printed without a leading zero (".4", ".8") and are transcribed that way. The date range in "Cases received July 1, 1939–June 30, 1940" uses an en dash. Cells shown as a dash rule (the pending rows' percent column, and the trailing panels of several sparse rows) are empty strings.
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.