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Disposition of representation cases closed during the fiscal years 1940–43, by method and stage
Stitched from pp. 99–100.
| Method and stage of disposition | Fiscal year 1943 | Fiscal year 1942 | Fiscal year 1941 | Fiscal year 1940 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Percent of cases on docket | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Percent of cases on docket | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Percent of cases on docket | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Percent of cases on docket |
| Cases on docket during year | 7,226 | 7,376 | 5,081 | 3,454 | ||||||||
| Total number of cases closed | 5,928 | 100.0 | 82.0 | 6,287 | 100.0 | 85.2 | 3,705 | 100.0 | 72.9 | 2,690 | 100.0 | 77.9 |
| Adjusted before hearing, total | 2,935 | 49.5 | 40.6 | 3,487 | 55.5 | 47.3 | 2,044 | 55.2 | 40.2 | 997 | 37.1 | 28.9 |
| Direct recognition | 216 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 413 | 6.6 | 5.6 | 336 | 9.1 | 6.6 | 194 | 7.2 | 5.6 |
| Recognition following election or pay-roll check | 2,299 | 38.8 | 31.8 | 2,626 | 41.8 | 35.6 | 1,450 | 39.1 | 28.5 | 651 | 24.2 | 18.9 |
| Union unsuccessful in election or pay-roll check | 420 | 7.1 | 5.8 | 448 | 7.1 | 6.1 | 258 | 7.0 | 5.1 | 152 | 5.7 | 4.4 |
| Informally adjusted during or after hearing | 58 | 1.0 | .8 | 30 | .5 | .4 | 18 | .5 | .3 | 16 | .6 | .4 |
| Direct recognition | 3 | .1 | .0 | 4 | .1 | .1 | 7 | .2 | .1 | 4 | .1 | .1 |
| Recognition following election or pay-roll check | 50 | .8 | .7 | 25 | .4 | .3 | 10 | .3 | .2 | 8 | .3 | .2 |
| Union unsuccessful in election or pay-roll check | 5 | .1 | .1 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 4 | .2 | .1 |
| Formally adjusted, total | 241 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 214 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 79 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 9 | .3 | .3 |
| Certification on consent election or pay-roll check | 223 | 3.7 | 3.1 | 199 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 72 | 1.9 | 1.4 | 8 | .3 | .3 |
| Board Order dismissing after consent election or pay-roll check | 18 | .3 | .3 | 15 | .2 | .2 | 7 | .2 | .2 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Certification following directed election | 1,014 | 17.1 | 14.0 | 741 | 11.8 | 10.0 | 476 | 12.8 | 9.4 | 371 | 13.8 | 10.7 |
| Certification after decision on record | 6 | .1 | .1 | 7 | .1 | .1 | 17 | .5 | .3 | 44 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| Withdrawn, total | 1,137 | 19.2 | 15.7 | 1,170 | 18.6 | 15.9 | 644 | 17.4 | 12.7 | 761 | 28.3 | 22.0 |
| Before hearing | 1,052 | 17.7 | 14.5 | 1,047 | 16.6 | 14.2 | 622 | 16.8 | 12.3 | 695 | 25.8 | 20.1 |
| After hearing | 85 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 123 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 22 | .6 | .4 | 66 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Dismissed, total | 534 | 9.0 | 7.4 | 636 | 10.1 | 8.6 | 424 | 11.4 | 8.3 | 489 | 18.2 | 14.2 |
| Before hearing | 307 | 5.2 | 4.2 | 432 | 6.9 | 5.8 | 281 | 7.6 | 5.5 | 316 | 11.8 | 9.2 |
| By Board Order, without election | 98 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 102 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 75 | 2.0 | 1.5 | 106 | 3.9 | 3.1 |
| By Board Order, following directed election | 129 | 2.2 | 1.8 | 102 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 68 | 1.8 | 1.3 | 67 | 2.5 | 1.9 |
| Otherwise | 3 | .1 | .0 | 2 | .0 | .0 | 3 | .1 | .1 | 3 | .1 | .1 |
- 1 This tabulation of cases closed differs from those in previous reports in that the cases are grouped first by method and then by stage. Prior to this year cases were grouped by stage and method.
- 2 Cases in which the parties waive hearing, agree in writing to the conduct of an election, but require that the results of the balloting be embodied in a Board Order certifying the winning union or dismissing the petition if no union is successful.
88 of 92 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 99. 13 columns: stub plus four fiscal-year panels of three columns each (Number of cases / Percent of cases closed / Percent of cases on docket). Crop coverage: the body ends at "After hearing" at the bottom edge of the image; the table almost certainly continues (e.g. dismissed/other dispositions) on the following page, and no footnote texts are printed inside this crop even though footnote markers are present (a raised 1 on the caption, which is excluded, and a raised 2 on "Formally adjusted,2 total"). The footnote list is therefore empty. "Cases on docket during year": the two percent cells in each panel are filled with a dashed rule, transcribed as "". Row label "Adjusted before hearing, total": the "j" is very faint/broken in the scan so the word images as "Adusted"; transcribed as "Adjusted" to match the parallel rows "Informally adjusted during or after hearing" and "Formally adjusted, total". Low-ink/doubtful cells, all read as given but worth a check against the original: FY1943 "Percent of cases on docket" for "Certification on consent election or pay-roll check" (3.1, trailing digit partly broken); FY1940 "Number of cases" for "Cases on docket during year" (3,454, a stray ink mark sits before the 3); FY1940 "Percent of cases closed" for "Union unsuccessful in election or pay-roll check" (5.7, preceded by a stray dot that is print noise, not a footnote marker). No arithmetic was checked or corrected; all values are as printed.
p. 100. The crop continues a table from above: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 13 columns (stub plus four repeating groups of three: a count column followed by two percentage columns), read from the column rules. The two footnotes at the bottom carry markers 1 and 2 whose anchors are in the part of the table above this crop. A double rule separates the "Otherwise" row from the "Dismissed, total" block above it. Internal checks are consistent as printed: in each group the three indented components sum to the "Dismissed, total" line (307+98+129=534; 432+102+102=636; 281+75+68=424; 316+106+67=489) and the percentage columns likewise sum to the totals, so no misprint is suspected. The rightmost column (14.2, 9.2, 3.1, 1.9, .1) sits flush against the right edge of the crop with no closing rule visible; its values appear complete and the group of three is whole, but a reader should be aware the right border is at the crop boundary.
Source image
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.