NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1952 › Outcome of collective bargaining elections by affiliation of participating unions, and number of employees in the units, fiscal year 1952
| Affiliation of participating unions | Number of elections | Number of employees involved (number eligible to vote) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation of participating unions | Total | in which representation rights were won by— | in which no representative was chosen | Total | in units in which representation rights were won by— | in units where no representative was chosen | ||||
| Affiliation of participating unions | Total | A. F. L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | in which no representative was chosen | Total | A. F. L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | in units where no representative was chosen |
| Total | 6,765 | 3,075 | 1,394 | 464 | 1,832 | 771,346 | 243,242 | 224,236 | 116,552 | 187,316 |
| One-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L. | 3,502 | 2,407 | 1,095 | 189,387 | 119,524 | 69,863 | ||||
| C. I. O. | 1,574 | 1,026 | 548 | 164,841 | 87,433 | 77,408 | ||||
| Unaffiliated | 351 | 286 | 65 | 22,671 | 17,851 | 4,820 | ||||
| Two-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.—C. I. O. | 651 | 300 | 282 | 69 | 196,948 | 86,965 | 92,037 | 17,946 | ||
| A. F. L.—Unaffiliated | 183 | 108 | 60 | 15 | 35,707 | 14,667 | 19,643 | 1,397 | ||
| A. F. L.—A. F. L. | 234 | 217 | 17 | 14,452 | 13,728 | 724 | ||||
| C. I. O.—Unaffiliated | 167 | 65 | 89 | 13 | 113,464 | 38,050 | 65,954 | 9,460 | ||
| C. I. O.—C. I. O. | 5 | 4 | 1 | 298 | 227 | 71 | ||||
| Unaffiliated—Unaffiliated | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1,427 | 1,427 | |||||
| Three-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.—C. I. O.—Unaffiliated | 35 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 13,931 | 2,289 | 5,011 | 3,534 | 3,097 |
| A. F. L.—A. F. L.—A. F. L. | 2 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 61 | |||||
| A. F. L.—A. F. L.—C. I. O. | 30 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 5,960 | 2,732 | 927 | 2,301 | ||
| A. F. L.—A. F. L.—Unaffiliated | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1,086 | 1,047 | 39 | |||
| A. F. L.—C. I. O.—C. I. O. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 108 | 54 | 54 | |||
| A. F. L.—Unaffiliated—Unaffiliated | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 60 | ||||
| C. I. O.—C. I. O.—Unaffiliated | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 563 | 373 | 190 | |||
| Unaffiliated—Unaffiliated—C. I. O. | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5,209 | 497 | 4,712 | |||
| Four-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.—C. I. O.—Unaffiliated—Unaffiliated | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 311 | 311 | |||
| A. F. L.—Unaffiliated—C. I. O.—C. I. O. | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4,862 | 2,175 | 2,687 | ||
128 of 128 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 301. No footnotes are printed under this table. The vertical text in the right margin ("Appendix B: Statistical Tables for Fiscal Year 1952") is a running head, not a table column, and is excluded. Handwritten ink annotations are present on the scan: looping ellipses drawn around/through the Total row (circling 6,765 and 3,075, and a long loop sweeping across 1,394, 464, 1,832 and the employees columns down past the "A. F. L." one-union row), plus a hand-drawn star in the right margin. They overlay but do not obscure any digits; all Total-row figures remain legible. Section-label punctuation: "One-union elections" and "Two-union elections" show no trailing mark, while "Three-union elections" appears to carry a trailing period and "Four-union elections" a trailing dot/colon. These look like inconsistent typesetting or scan artifacts, so I transcribed all four section labels without trailing punctuation. Label spelling: the scan renders some periods in the affiliation abbreviations faintly or not at all (e.g. the last row prints as "A. F L.—Unaffiliated—C. I. O.—C. I. O." and the "C. I. O —C. I. O.—Unaffiliated" row). I normalized these to the consistent "A. F. L." / "C. I. O." form used elsewhere in the stub. Verification: every row sums across its component columns to its printed Total (both the elections block and the employees block), and every column sums down to the printed Total row, in all 10 value columns. No arithmetic discrepancies or suspected misprints were found. Cells printed as dash rules ("------") were transcribed as "" per instructions; printed zeros were kept as "0". Note the distinction is meaningful here, e.g. "A. F. L.—A. F. L.—Unaffiliated" shows a printed 0 in the elections Unaffiliated-unions column but a dash rule in the corresponding employees column.
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.