NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1946 › Formal action taken during the fiscal year 1946
| All cases | Unfair labor practice cases | Representation cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of cases | Formal actions | Number of cases | Formal actions | Number of cases | Formal actions | |
| Complaints issued | 306 | 289 | 306 | 289 | ||
| Notices of hearing issued | 1,534 | 1,309 | 1,534 | 1,309 | ||
| Cases heard | 1,660 | 1,402 | 233 | 219 | 1,427 | 1,183 |
| Intermediate Reports or proposed findings | 186 | 178 | 186 | 178 | ||
| Decisions issued | 2,025 | 1,748 | 242 | 230 | 1,783 | 1,518 |
| Decisions and orders | 193 | 183 | 193 | 183 | ||
| Decisions and consent orders | 49 | 47 | 49 | 47 | ||
| Elections directed | 1,189 | 975 | 1,189 | 975 | ||
| Certifications or dismissals after stipulated elections | 438 | 426 | 438 | 426 | ||
| Certifications after prehearing elections and stipulation | 28 | 27 | 28 | 27 | ||
| Certifications or dismissals on the record | 114 | 76 | 114 | 76 | ||
| Certifications on record after prehearing elections | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | ||
34 of 52 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 116. Seven columns: stub plus three two-column panels (All cases / Unfair labor practice cases / Representation cases), each split into "Number of cases" and "Formal actions^1". The stub has no printed heading (only a faint dash artifact sits in that cell), so its header cells are empty. On the "Complaints issued" line a small raised asterisk-like mark appears in the middle of the leader dots, well to the right of the label text. Only footnotes 1 and 2 are printed under the table, and no footnote "*" exists, so I read it as a scan artifact and did not transcribe it as a marker; if it is a genuine marker the label would be "Complaints issued^*". Cells shown as a row of dashes (e.g. the Representation columns on "Complaints issued", the Unfair labor practice columns on "Notices of hearing issued" and on all rows from "Elections directed" down) are dash rules indicating not applicable, transcribed as "". The last eight rows are indented sub-items of "Decisions issued"; the indentation is preserved only by position, not by the label text. Arithmetic checks out as printed: 242 + 1,783 = 2,025 and 230 + 1,518 = 1,748 for "Decisions issued", 233 + 1,427 = 1,660 for "Cases heard", and the seven sub-items sum to 2,025 and 1,748 respectively. No discrepancies found. Scan quality is poor in places (broken "i" dots, OCR-style speckle), but every digit was legible. A faint stray dash follows the "49" in the Unfair labor practice "Number of cases" column on "Decisions and consent orders"; it is a leader/artifact, not a sign.
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.