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Union-shop authorization polls

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Division and State	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Number of polls	Employees eligible to vote	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast	Number of valid votes cast
Division and State	Total	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — A F L	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — C I O	Affiliation of union authorized to negotiate union-shop — Unaffiliated unions	Union-shop rejected	Employees eligible to vote	Total	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — A F L	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — C I O	In favor of union-shop by affiliation of petitioning union — Unaffiliated unions	Against union-shop
New England	3,874	2,415	691	432	85	556,460	479,562	172,813	208,366	38,734	30,131
Maine	200	165	21	8	6	32,649	27,532	17,166	16,170	3,232	2,281
New Hampshire	164	57	63	10	0	32,609	27,343	7,128	13,026	4,068	3,123
Vermont	103	61	11	11	2	8,082	6,961	5,001	1,083	467	1,047
Massachusetts	2,355	1,624	493	236	30	390,640	330,300	108,055	165,724	25,374	21,060
Rhode Island	350	165	165	21	0	61,830	53,074	13,690	27,394	3,011	1,042
Connecticut	602	353	178	138	16	94,424	80,392	25,873	39,605	7,834	7,090
Middle Atlantic	11,015	7,070	2,336	1,409	200	1,917,308	1,626,919	631,730	656,624	197,367	141,329
New York	5,449	3,812	960	601	76	802,834	698,103	374,774	191,107	62,665	62,135
New Jersey	1,829	820	445	517	47	327,860	276,151	78,479	81,491	85,498	30,683
Pennsylvania	3,278	1,938	931	412	77	786,614	682,665	178,477	184,026	203,663	55,499
East North Central	12,062	6,990	2,947	1,938	311	2,440,402	2,000,193	569,933	1,094,004	302,693	63,419
Ohio	3,292	1,926	802	464	98	647,827	539,449	144,333	278,949	82,996	33,170
Indiana	1,551	1,022	301	184	44	361,547	292,927	70,572	181,704	32,442	8,209
Illinois	3,387	2,194	623	457	113	454,964	388,108	150,295	157,938	63,602	16,463
Michigan	2,441	961	1,107	338	35	639,500	514,108	78,767	378,941	39,581	16,879
Wisconsin	1,411	925	284	245	21	297,158	245,601	94,070	100,946	33,793	8,728
West North Central	6,005	4,449	557	828	194	381,347	326,852	161,156	88,807	39,486	19,338
South Atlantic	1,347	1,014	167	143	43	226,187	187,124	86,696	73,856	12,967	13,705
Delaware	65	40	13	6	6	6,432	5,151	1,712	2,873	404	162
Maryland	579	455	72	41	11	117,829	97,943	42,587	39,455	4,693	5,892
District of Columbia	377	353	11	11	2	11,539	9,621	7,924	884	287	576

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Source page 319 of NLRB FY1952 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1952, p. 319.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.