NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1952 › Disposition of union-shop authorization cases closed, by stage and method, August 22, 1947–October 22, 1951
| Stage and method | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed |
|---|---|---|
| Total number of cases closed | 53,381 | 100.0 |
| Before formal action, total | 52,585 | 98.5 |
| Adjusted | 46,145 | 86.5 |
| Consent election, union shop authorized | 42,135 | 79.0 |
| Consent election, union shop not authorized | 1,151 | 2.2 |
| Stipulated election, union shop authorized | 338 | .6 |
| Stipulated election, union shop not authorized | 14 | [*] |
| Regional director directed election, union shop authorized | 2,390 | 4.5 |
| Regional director directed election, union shop not authorized | 117 | .2 |
| Withdrawn | 5,654 | 10.6 |
| Dismissed | 766 | 1.4 |
| Otherwise | 20 | [*] |
| After formal action, total | 78 | .2 |
| After notice of hearing | 7 | [*] |
| Consent election, union shop authorized | 4 | [*] |
| Withdrawn | 3 | [*] |
| After hearing held, withdrawn | 2 | [*] |
| After Board decision, dismissed | 25 | .1 |
| After Board-ordered election, union shop authorized | 27 | .1 |
| After regional director directed election and objections filed | 17 | [*] |
| Union shop authorized | 10 | [*] |
| Union shop not authorized | 3 | [*] |
| Withdrawn | 2 | [*] |
| Dismissed | 2 | [*] |
| Closed by public law 189 | 718 | 1.3 |
0 of 25 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 316. Three printed columns with a single heading level. Decimal points in the percent column print very faintly in this scan: several values read as a bare gap (\"100 0\", \"98 5\", \"86 5\", \"79 0\", \"2 2\", \"10 6\", \"0 1\" in the footnote) while others show the point clearly (1.4, .2, .1, 1.3); they are transcribed with the decimal point, consistent with the column's one-decimal alignment. The \"Stipulated election, union shop authorized\" percent cell shows only a right-aligned \"6\" in the tenths position with no visible leading point; it is transcribed \".6\" (338/53,381 = 0.6 percent, which supports the reading). Small specks appear to the right of the percent cells for \"Total number of cases closed\", \"Before formal action, total\" and \"After formal action, total\"; these are scan artifacts, not characters. The \"(*)\" entries are printed as a parenthesised asterisk referring to the footnote. All printed totals are internally consistent (46,145 + 5,654 + 766 + 20 = 52,585; 52,585 + 78 + 718 = 53,381; 4 + 3 = 7; 10 + 3 + 2 + 2 = 17; 7 + 2 + 25 + 27 + 17 = 78). Row indentation marks hierarchy but is not encoded in the grid; \"Closed by public law 189\" is transcribed with the printed lowercase wording.
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.