NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1943 › Results of elections ordered July 1, 1940–November 30, 1942, in closed-shop and non-closed-shop contract cases, by time of petition or claim of rival in relation to term of contract
Results of elections ordered July 1, 1940–November 30, 1942, in closed-shop and non-closed-shop contract cases, by time of petition or claim of rival in relation to term of contract
| Time of petition or claim of rival in relation to term of contract | Closed-shop cases | Non-closed-shop cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time of petition or claim of rival in relation to term of contract | Number of elections | Won by rival union | Number of elections | Won by rival union | ||
| Time of petition or claim of rival in relation to term of contract | Number of elections | Number | Percent | Number of elections | Number | Percent |
| All cases | 95 | 44 | 46 | 140 | 101 | 72 |
| On change of affiliation of local union during contract | 13 | 12 | 92 | 16 | 16 | 100 |
| During contract | 19 | 13 | 68 | 48 | 34 | 71 |
| Before new first contract executed | 29 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 10 | 62 |
| Before automatic renewal of contract | 9 | 5 | 55 | 10 | 8 | 80 |
| During contract negotiations | 25 | 10 | 40 | 42 | 29 | 69 |
| Miscellaneous | 8 | 4 | 50 | |||
- 1 Includes 1 election in which no union won.
- 2 Includes 3 elections in which no union won.
- 3 Heavily weighted by 14 elections in plants of 1 company, in all of which the rival union lost.
- 4 Includes 2 elections in which no union won.
26 of 26 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 80. Seven columns: stub plus three columns for each of the two case types (Number of elections; Won by rival union: Number, Percent). Footnote markers are printed as raised digits to the LEFT of the values in this table; they are transcribed after the value behind a caret (e.g. the printed "¹ 95" is "95^1"). The raised 3 on "Before new first contract executed" / Closed-shop / Number of elections ("29^3") is rendered in the scan with a glyph that could be misread as an 8, but footnote 3's text ("Heavily weighted by 14 elections in plants of 1 company...") matches that cell, so 3 is correct. The "Miscellaneous" row has dash rules (no data) under all three Closed-shop columns; those are given as empty cells. Internal checks all reconcile as printed: closed-shop elections 13+19+29+9+25 = 95 and wins 12+13+4+5+10 = 44; non-closed-shop elections 16+48+16+10+42+8 = 140 and wins 16+34+10+8+29+4 = 101; every printed percent matches its ratio.
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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.