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Number of cases in which formal action was taken during fiscal year 1951
| Formal actions taken | All cases | Unfair labor practice cases | Representation cases | Union-shop authorization cases | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Formal actions taken | All cases | All C cases | NLRA—C cases | CA cases | Other C cases | Representation cases | Union-shop authorization cases |
| Complaints issued | 792 | 792 | 0 | 630 | 162 | ||
| Notices of hearing issued | 2,658 | 15 | 15 | 2,610 | 33 | ||
| Cases heard | 2,833 | 670 | 1 | 520 | 149 | 2,131 | 32 |
| Intermediate reports issued | 624 | 624 | 2 | 476 | 146 | ||
| Decisions issued, total | 3,534 | 606 | 10 | 461 | 135 | 2,740 | 188 |
| Decisions and orders | 498 | 498 | 8 | 369 | 121 | ||
| Decisions and consent orders | 108 | 108 | 2 | 92 | 14 | ||
| Elections directed | 1,698 | 1,689 | 9 | ||||
| Certifications and dismissals after stipulated elections | 942 | 793 | 149 | ||||
| Dismissals on record | 280 | 258 | 22 | ||||
| Certifications after regional director directed elections | 8 | 8 | |||||
- 1 See p. 290 for definitions of types of cases.
- 2 The union-shop authorization poll was abolished by Public Law 189, approved by the President Oct. 22, 1951. However, the law still provides for deauthorization polls when appropriate.
- 3 Includes 62 cases decided by adoption of intermediate report in absence of exceptions.
- 4 Includes 17 cases decided by adoption of intermediate report in absence of exceptions.
- 5 Includes 1 Wagner R directed election.
49 of 49 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 311. Eight columns: stub, "All cases", four "Unfair labor practice cases" columns, "Representation cases", "Union-shop authorization cases". Blank cells in the body are printed as dashed rules and are transcribed as "". Footnote markers 3, 4 and 5 are printed as raised digits immediately BEFORE their values ("3 369", "4 121", "5 1,689"); they are written after the value behind a caret. The row "Notices of hearing issued" prints 15 under "All C cases" and again 15 under "Other C cases", with dashed rules under "NLRA—C cases" and "CA cases"; that is as printed and is internally consistent (15 + 2,610 + 33 = 2,658). Below the numbered footnotes the crop begins a NOTE line ("NOTE.—This table is comparable to the 'number of cases' columns used in the formal ... tables ...") that is cut off by the bottom edge of the image and is therefore not transcribed. All row and column sums check out against the printed totals; no misprints detected.
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.