NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1941 › Number of representation cases and number of workers involved in representation cases received, closed, and pending 1940-41, by stage and method of closing
| Cases | Workers involved | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percent of cases closed | Percent of cases on docket | Workers involved | |
| Cases pending, July 1, 1940 | 747 | 401,016 | ||
| Cases received, July 1940–June 1941 | 4,334 | 1,188,088 | ||
| Cases on docket, July 1940–June 1941 | 5,081 | 100.0 | 1,589,104 | |
| Cases closed, July 1940–June 1941 | 3,698 | 100.0 | 72.8 | 1,055,243 |
| Cases closed before formal action | 2,874 | 77.7 | 56.6 | 609,064 |
| Cases settled | 1,984 | 53.7 | 39.0 | 349,078 |
| By recognition of representatives | 327 | 8.8 | 6.4 | 32,505 |
| By consent election | 1,329 | 35.9 | 26.2 | 270,046 |
| By pay-roll check | 328 | 8.9 | 6.4 | 46,527 |
| Cases dismissed | 324 | 8.8 | 6.4 | 123,914 |
| Cases withdrawn | 545 | 14.7 | 10.7 | 125,784 |
| Cases closed otherwise | 21 | .6 | .4 | 10,288 |
| Cases closed after formal action | 824 | 22.3 | 16.2 | 446,179 |
| Cases closed before hearing | 82 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 12,829 |
| Cases settled | 51 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 8,429 |
| By recognition of representatives | 11 | .3 | .2 | 689 |
| By consent election | 39 | 1.1 | .8 | 7,620 |
| By pay-roll check | 1 | [1] | [1] | 120 |
| Cases dismissed | 5 | .1 | .1 | 906 |
| Cases withdrawn | 25 | .7 | .5 | 3,485 |
| Cases closed otherwise | 1 | [1] | [1] | 9 |
| Cases closed after hearing | 27 | .7 | .5 | 5,553 |
| Cases settled | 15 | .4 | .3 | 4,574 |
| By recognition of representatives | 4 | .1 | .1 | 1,400 |
| By consent election | 11 | .3 | .2 | 3,174 |
| By pay-roll check | ||||
| Cases dismissed | 4 | .1 | .1 | 461 |
| Cases withdrawn | 8 | .2 | .1 | 518 |
| Cases closed after Board decision | 715 | 19.3 | 14.1 | 427,797 |
| Cases closed by certification | 518 | 14.0 | 10.2 | 383,576 |
| After stipulated election | 69 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 24,411 |
| After ordered election | 432 | 11.7 | 8.5 | 357,727 |
| Other cases | 17 | .5 | .3 | 1,438 |
| Cases dismissed | 180 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 42,227 |
| After stipulated election | 6 | .2 | .1 | 5,189 |
| After ordered election | 98 | 2.6 | 1.9 | 17,307 |
| Other cases | 76 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 19,731 |
| Cases withdrawn | 14 | .4 | .3 | 1,912 |
| Cases closed otherwise after Board decision | 3 | .1 | .1 | 82 |
| Cases pending July 1, 1941 | 1,383 | 27.2 | 533,861 | |
0 of 78 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 34. Five printed columns: stub, Cases–Number, Cases–Percent of cases closed, Cases–Percent of cases on docket, Workers involved. The stub has no heading of its own; "Cases" spans the three middle columns and "Workers involved" spans both heading levels. The stub is indented to show hierarchy (e.g. "Cases settled" and "By recognition of representatives" recur under three different parents); indentation is not preserved in the grid, so repeated labels are distinguished only by position. Cells printed as a superscript 1 inside parentheses — i.e. the footnote reference standing in place of a value, meaning "less than 0.1 percent" — are transcribed as (1). They occur in both percent columns for the "By pay-roll check" and "Cases closed otherwise" rows under "Cases closed before hearing". The second "By pay-roll check" row under "Cases closed after hearing" has dash rules in all four value columns, transcribed as empty cells. Decimal values below 1 are printed without a leading zero (.6, .4, .1) and are transcribed as printed. Printed digit-grouping spaces after commas (e.g. "4, 334") have been closed up. Spot check of the printed figures: 2,874 + 824 = 3,698 (Cases closed) and 1,984 + 324 + 545 + 21 = 2,874 are internally consistent; 747 + 4,334 = 5,081 and 3,698 + 1,383 = 5,081 also check out. Nothing appears misprinted.
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.