NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1943 › Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1943
| Participating unions | Number of elections and pay-roll checks | Elections and pay-roll checks won | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participating unions | Number of elections and pay-roll checks | By A. F. of L. affiliates | By C. I. O. affiliates | By unaffiliated unions | Number | Percent casting valid votes | Total | For A. F. of L. affiliates | For C. I. O. affiliates | For unaffiliated unions | Against unions | ||||||
| Participating unions | Number of elections and pay-roll checks | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent casting valid votes | Total | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Against unions |
| Total | 4,153 | 1,398 | 33.7 | 1,766 | 42.5 | 416 | 10.0 | 1,402,040 | 80.3 | 1,126,501 | 267,118 | 23.7 | 515,271 | 45.7 | 140,780 | 12.5 | 203,332 |
| A. F. of L. affiliates | 1,315 | 1,072 | 81.5 | 226,547 | 82.2 | 186,309 | 131,171 | 70.4 | 55,138 | ||||||||
| C. I. O. affiliates | 1,580 | 1,344 | 85.1 | 478,413 | 79.9 | 382,453 | 284,816 | 74.5 | 97,637 | ||||||||
| Unaffiliated unions | 328 | 276 | 84.1 | 65,825 | 81.3 | 53,506 | 40,633 | 75.9 | 12,873 | ||||||||
| A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates | 513 | 211 | 41.1 | 268 | 52.2 | 328,699 | 78.3 | 257,407 | 100,580 | 39.1 | 132,921 | 51.6 | 23,906 | ||||
| A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffiliated unions | 160 | 104 | 65.0 | 52 | 32.5 | 65,403 | 81.5 | 53,280 | 30,050 | 56.4 | 19,030 | 35.7 | 4,200 | ||||
| C. I. O. affiliates-unaffiliated unions | 227 | 143 | 63.0 | 80 | 35.2 | 215,418 | 82.0 | 176,727 | 92,083 | 52.1 | 75,890 | 42.9 | 8,754 | ||||
| A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated unions | 30 | 11 | 36.7 | 11 | 36.7 | 8 | 26.7 | 21,735 | 77.4 | 16,819 | 5,317 | 31.6 | 5,451 | 32.4 | 5,227 | 31.1 | 824 |
62 of 62 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 102. The table has 18 columns: the stub, "Number of elections and pay-roll checks", six columns under "Elections and pay-roll checks won", two under "Eligible voters", and seven under "Valid votes cast" (Total; Number/Percent for each of three union groups; and the tall "Against unions" column at the far right, which sits inside the "Valid votes cast" spanner). Footnote markers 1-6 are raised digits printed immediately BEFORE the figures in the "Number of elections and pay-roll checks" column (e.g. a raised 1 before 1,315); per instruction they are written after the value behind a caret. The marker on the "A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffiliated unions" row (160) is faint and sits low, but is read as 5 on the basis of the footnote sequence and because footnote 5 is the one printed in the right-hand footnote block alongside footnote 6. Empty cells in the body are printed as dashed rules (sometimes one long dash rule running across two or four adjacent columns, e.g. columns 3-6 on the "Unaffiliated unions" row and columns 12-15 on the same row); all are transcribed as "". Arithmetic checks (not corrections - nothing was altered): every data column sums exactly to its printed Total row, and all printed percentages reproduce from the adjacent counts. For example 267,118 + 515,271 + 140,780 + 203,332 = 1,126,501, and the seven group figures in each column sum to the printed total. No misprint was detected. Several row labels wrap over two printed lines with end-of-line hyphenation and have been rejoined: "A. F. of L. affiliates-C. I. | O. affiliates", "A. F. of L. affiliates-unaffili- | ated unions", "C. I. O. affiliates-unaffili- | ated unions", and "A. F. of L.-C. I. O.-unaf- | filiated unions". The internal hyphens joining two union names (e.g. "affiliates-C. I. O.") are part of the label, not line-break hyphens, and have been kept.
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.