NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1948 › Disposition of union-shop authorization cases closed, by stage and method, during the fiscal year 1948
Disposition of union-shop authorization cases closed, by stage and method, during the fiscal year 1948
| Stage and method | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed |
|---|---|---|
| Total number of cases closed | 18,691 | 100.0 |
| Before formal action, total | 18,684 | 100.0 |
| Adjusted | 16,649 | 89.1 |
| Consent election—authorized | 15,732 | 84.2 |
| Consent election—not authorized | 285 | 1.5 |
| Stipulated election—authorized | 59 | .3 |
| Stipulated election—not authorized | 0 | .0 |
| Regional director directed election—authorized | 564 | 3.0 |
| Regional director directed election—not authorized | 9 | .1 |
| Withdrawn | 1,878 | 10.0 |
| Dismissed | 148 | .8 |
| Otherwise | 9 | .1 |
| After formal action, total | 7 | |
| Adjusted—consent election—authorized | 2 | |
| Decision and authorization after regional director directed election | 4 | |
| Dismissed by Board without election | 1 |
- 1 Less than 0.1 percent.
0 of 15 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 114. Three printed columns; single heading level. The percent column for the four "after formal action" rows holds only a parenthesized raised footnote reference, printed as a superscript 1 inside parentheses; transcribed as "(^1)" to keep both the printed parentheses and the footnote marker. Percentages are printed without a leading zero (".3", ".0", ".8", ".1") and are transcribed as printed. Indentation (not preserved in the grid) runs: "Before formal action, total" and "After formal action, total" at the left margin; "Total number of cases closed", "Adjusted", "Withdrawn", "Dismissed", "Otherwise" one level in; the six election rows and the three post-formal-action rows one level further in. Row labels use em dashes as printed. Arithmetic is not checked or corrected: the "Adjusted" detail (15,732 + 285 + 59 + 0 + 564 + 9 = 16,649) agrees, but 18,684 + 7 = 18,691 while the "before formal action" components (16,649 + 1,878 + 148 + 9) sum to 18,684, and the percent column components under "Before formal action, total" sum to more than 100.0 as printed. A small ink speck sits just right of "18,691" in the percent column of the first data row; it is not a digit or decimal point and was ignored. The caption, footnote rule and page furniture are excluded per instructions.
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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.