NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1953 › Calendar Days Elapsed in Processing Unfair Labor Practice Cases
| Stage of case processing | Median average days | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage of case processing | Fiscal 1946 | Fiscal 1952 | Fiscal 1953 | First half of fiscal 1953 | Second half of fiscal 1953 |
| Contested unfair labor practice cases: | |||||
| From filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 146 | 160 | 133 | 162 | 108 |
| From issuance of complaint to close of hearing | 24 | 41 | 53 | 56 | 52 |
| From close of hearing to issuance of intermediate report | 48 | 68 | 77 | 82 | 74 |
| From intermediate report to issuance of Board decision | 199 | 178 | 161 | 221 | 116 |
| Total time from filing of charge to Board decision | 417 | 447 | 424 | 521 | 350 |
| Unfair labor practice cases closed informally from filing of charge to final disposition for— | |||||
| Cases settled | 85 | 128 | 108 | 109 | 108 |
| Cases withdrawn | 65 | 48 | 43 | 47 | 41 |
| Cases dismissed | 140 | 94 | 85 | 91 | 79 |
p. 15. Six printed columns: the stub plus five data columns, all five grouped under the spanner "Median average days". The stub heading "Stage of case processing" spans both heading levels. Two rows carry a label and no figures: the section line "Contested unfair labor practice cases:" and the lead-in "Unfair labor practice cases closed informally from filing of charge to final disposition for—" (the em dash is printed at the end of that label). The "Total time from filing of charge to Board decision" row is printed below a short rule inside the stub/first data area and is indented as a total for the four contested-case stages above it. Footnote markers 1-4 are raised digits following the row labels "From issuance of complaint to close of hearing", "From close of hearing to issuance of intermediate report", "From intermediate report to issuance of Board decision" and "Cases dismissed"; they are not part of any figure. In footnote 4 the sentence-ending punctuation after "the regional director's dismissal" is not legible in the scan (a wide gap appears where a period would be), so it is transcribed without one; footnote 1 likewise ends with no visible period. All figures are clear and well separated by column rules; no cell was doubtful. The table's title line ("B. Calendar Days Elapsed in Processing Unfair Labor Practice Cases") was omitted as a caption per instructions.
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.