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 affiliation of petitioner
Stitched from pp. 41–42.
| All cases | Cases filed by A. F. of L. affiliates | Cases filed by C. I. O. affiliates | Cases filed by unaffiliated unions | Cases filed by employers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Number of workers involved | Number | Number of workers involved | Number | Number of workers involved | Number | Number of workers involved | Number | Number of workers involved | |
| Cases pending, July 1, 1940 | 747 | 401,016 | 345 | 190,591 | 250 | 132,164 | 132 | 71,627 | 19 | 6,564 |
| Cases received, July 1940–June 1941 | 4,334 | 1,188,088 | 2,016 | 401,019 | 1,768 | 624,453 | 473 | 146,367 | 73 | 11,704 |
| Cases on docket, July 1940–June 1941 | 5,081 2 | 1,589,104 2 | 2,361 | 591,610 | 2,018 | 756,617 | 605 | 217,994 | 92 | 18,268 |
| Cases closed July 1940–June1941 | 3,698 3 | 1,055,243 3 | 1,707 | 448,315 | 1,514 | 450,696 | 402 | 136,566 | 71 | 15,121 |
| Cases closed before formal action | 2,874 3 | 609,064 3 | 1,387 | 236,228 | 1,129 | 248,745 | 297 | 109,495 | 57 | 10,051 |
| Cases settled | 1,984 | 349,078 | 1,007 | 143,888 | 823 | 166,336 | 131 | 35,368 | 20 | 2,941 |
| By recognition of representatives | 327 | 32,505 | 198 | 12,862 | 102 | 8,199 | 24 | 11,343 | 3 | 101 |
| By consent election | 1,329 | 270,046 | 608 | 104,597 | 617 | 140,464 | 84 | 21,600 | 17 | 2,840 |
| By pay-roll check | 328 | 46,527 | 201 | 26,429 | 104 | 17,673 | 23 | 2,425 | ||
| Cases dismissed | 324 | 123,914 | 121 | 39,451 | 72 | 36,309 | 111 | 45,522 | 20 | 2,632 |
| Cases withdrawn | 545 | 125,784 | 246 | 50,954 | 231 | 39,193 | 50 | 27,159 | 17 | 4,478 |
| Cases closed otherwise before formal action | 21 | 10,288 | 13 | 1,935 | 3 | 6,907 | 5 | 1,446 | ||
| Cases closed after formal action | 824 | 446,179 | 320 | 212,087 | 385 | 201,951 | 105 | 27.071 | 14 | 5,070 |
| Cases closed before hearing | 82 | 12,829 | 38 | 5,164 | 34 | 5,277 | 8 | 939 | 2 | 1,449 |
| Cases settled | 51 | 8,429 | 22 | 3,742 | 26 | 3,482 | 2 | 316 | 1 | 889 |
| By recognition of representatives | 11 | 689 | 6 | 96 | 5 | 593 | ||||
| By consent election | 39 | 7,620 | 15 | 3,526 | 21 | 2,889 | 2 | 316 | 1 | 889 |
| By pay-roll check | 1 | 120 | 1 | 120 | ||||||
| Cases dismissed | 5 | 906 | 2 | 141 | 2 | 205 | 1 | 560 | ||
| Cases withdrawn | 25 | 3,485 | 13 | 1,272 | 8 | 1,795 | 4 | 418 | ||
| Cases closed otherwise | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Cases closed after hearing | 27 | 5,553 | 12 | 1,682 | 12 | 3,816 | 3 | 55 | ||
| Cases settled | 15 | 4,574 | 7 | 1,519 | 7 | 3,029 | 1 | 26 | ||
| By recognition of representatives | 4 | 1,400 | 2 | 300 | 2 | 1,100 | ||||
| By consent election | 11 | 3,174 | 5 | 1,219 | 5 | 1,929 | 1 | 26 | ||
| By pay-roll check | ||||||||||
| Cases dismissed | 4 | 461 | 3 | 61 | 1 | 400 | ||||
| Cases withdrawn | 8 | 518 | 2 | 102 | 4 | 387 | 2 | 29 | ||
| Cases closed after board decision | 715 | 427,797 | 270 | 205,241 | 339 | 192,858 | 94 | 26,077 | 12 | 3,621 |
| Cases closed by certification | 518 | 383,576 | 198 | 197,812 | 252 | 158,098 | 59 | 24,158 | 9 | 3,508 |
| Cases closed after stipulated election | 69 | 24,411 | 12 | 3,688 | 48 | 18,677 | 6 | 885 | 3 | 1,161 |
| Cases closed after ordered election | 432 | 357,727 | 174 | 192,960 | 200 | 139,347 | 52 | 23,073 | 6 | 2,347 |
| Other cases closed by certification | 17 | 1,438 | 12 | 1,164 | 4 | 74 | 1 | 200 | ||
| Cases dismissed | 180 | 42,227 | 66 | 7,322 | 76 | 32,873 | 35 | 1,919 | 3 | 113 |
| Cases closed after stipulated election | 6 | 5,189 | 6 | 5,189 | ||||||
| Cases closed after ordered election | 98 | 17,307 | 44 | 3,963 | 49 | 12,657 | 3 | 579 | 2 | 108 |
| Other cases dismissed | 76 | 19,731 | 22 | 3,359 | 21 | 15,027 | 32 | 1,340 | 1 | 5 |
| Cases withdrawn | 14 | 1,912 | 5 | 94 | 9 | 1,818 | ||||
| Cases closed otherwise after board decision | 3 | 82 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 69 | ||||
| Cases pending, July 1, 1941 | 1,383 | 533,861 | 654 | 143,295 | 504 | 305,921 | 203 | 81,428 | 21 | 3,147 |
322 of 333 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 41. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the last printed row visible is "By recognition of representatives" (4 / 1,400 ...), which is clearly mid-table (the "Cases settled after hearing" breakdown continues, and the "Cases closed after hearing" / dismissed / withdrawn lines and the table's footnote block are not on this image). No footnote texts are printed on the crop, so `footnotes` is empty even though markers 1, 2 and 3 are used in the body. Footnote markers are printed as small raised digits to the LEFT of the figure; I have moved them behind a caret after the value as instructed. Where two markers sit together I wrote them after a single caret separated by a space, e.g. "5,081^1 2" on the "Cases on docket" row. Marker legibility: the raised digits on "Cases closed July 1940–June1941", "Cases closed before formal action", "Cases settled" and "By consent election" are small and partly broken in the scan; the second marker could be read as either 3 or 8. I transcribed them all as 3, since 1/2/3 is the self-consistent set used elsewhere in the row block, but a reader should verify against the (not shown) footnote list. Suspected misprint: "Cases closed after formal action", column "Cases filed by unaffiliated unions / Number of workers involved" is printed as 27.071 with a period rather than the digit-grouping comma used everywhere else; transcribed as printed (intended value presumably 27,071). Printing oddity in a label: the "Cases closed July 1940–June1941" row has no space between "June" and "1941" in the original; the parallel rows above print "July 1940–June 1941" with a space. Transcribed as printed. In the same row group, the "Number" cell for employers on "Cases closed after formal action" prints with a serif-heavy first glyph that reads like "I4"; it is 14. "Cases closed before hearing" is set with a wide word space ("Cases closed before hearing"); normalized to a single space. Cells shown as a dash rule (a row of hyphens) under the unaffiliated-union and employer panels are transcribed as "".
p. 42. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop (the table's caption, headings and opening rows are on the preceding page), so header_rows is empty. The grid has 11 columns — the stub plus five apparent pairs of number-of-cases / number-of-employees columns. Footnote markers 2 and 3 are not attached to anything on this crop; they must occur on the preceding page of the table. "Cases dismissed" (first occurrence, 3rd body row): a small raised "2"-like mark sits inside the dash rule of column 7 (the 4th cases column). It is not a value — the printed row total of 4 equals 3 + 1 from columns 3 and 5 — so that cell is transcribed as "". It is most likely a stray/offset mark or a displaced marker; I did not record it as a footnote marker because nothing in that cell is printed to carry it. Glyph calls resolved by arithmetic in this low-quality 1-bit scan, where 9 frequently prints like 0: "Cases closed after stipulated election" (first of the certification group), column 1, read as 69 — 69 + 432 + 17 = 518, the printed certification total; 60 would not reconcile. Likewise 1,929 in "By consent election" column 6 (1,219 + 1,929 + 26 = 3,174), 12,657 in "Cases closed after ordered election" column 6, and 69 in "Cases closed otherwise after board decision" column 6 (13 + 69 = 82). All other rows and columns cross-foot exactly as printed. The one apparent discrepancy is benign and self-documented: in "Cases pending, July 1, 1941", the employee columns sum to 533,791 against a printed total of 533,861 (and the case columns sum to 1,382 against 1,383); footnote 1 accounts for the extra joint-petitioner case, counted in the totals but in no affiliation column.
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.