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Collective-Bargaining Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, Fiscal Year 1953
| Union affiliation | Elections participated in | Employees involved (Number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union affiliation | Total | Won | Percent won | Total eligible | Employees in units selecting bargaining agent | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for the union | ||
| Union affiliation | Total | Won | Percent won | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total cast |
| Total | 6,050 | 4,350 | 71.9 | 737,998 | 584,450 | 79.2 | 639,739 | 86.7 | 497,286 | 77.7 |
| A. F. L. | 4,292 | 2,750 | 64.1 | 502,382 | 267,925 | 53.3 | 431,392 | 85.9 | 228,801 | 53.0 |
| C. I. O. | 2,141 | 1,114 | 52.0 | 464,451 | 217,165 | 46.8 | 404,440 | 87.1 | 192,060 | 47.5 |
| Unaffiliated | 802 | 486 | 60.6 | 173,403 | 99,360 | 57.3 | 150,529 | 86.8 | 76,425 | 50.8 |
- 1 The term "collective-bargaining election" is used to cover representation elections requested by a union or other candidate for employee representative or by the employer. This term is used to distinguish this type of election from a decertification election, which is one requested by employees seeking to revoke the representation rights of a union which is already certified or which is recognized by the employer without a Board certification.
- 2 Elections involving 2 or more unions of different affiliations are counted under each affiliation, but only once in the total. Therefore, the total is less than the sum of the figures or the 3 groupings by affiliation.
0 of 24 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 115. 11 columns: stub plus 3 under "Elections participated in", 3 under "Employees involved (Number eligible to vote)", and 4 under "Valid votes cast". The stub heading and the single-level headings ("Total", "Won", "Percent won", "Total eligible", and the "Total" / "Percent of total eligible" under "Valid votes cast") are tall cells spanning the lower heading levels, so they are repeated. Decimal points in the percent columns print very faintly in this scan: several cells read like "71 9", "79 2", "86 7", "77 7", "53 3", "85 9", "53 0", "52 0", "46 8", "87 1", "47 5", "86 8", "50 8" with the point barely or not visible, while neighbouring cells in the same columns ("64.1", "60.6", "57.3") show the point clearly. All of these are one-decimal percentages, so I transcribed them with the decimal point rather than with the gap. Same faint-punctuation issue in the row labels: the image shows roughly "A F. L." and "C I O". I transcribed them as the standard "A. F. L." and "C. I. O."; the periods are partly lost in the scan rather than absent in the original typesetting. The raised 2 markers in the Total row are printed to the left of the values ("² 6,050", "² 737,998", "² 639,739"); per the convention I placed them after the number as "6,050^2", "737,998^2", "639,739^2". Footnote 1's marker is attached to the caption ("Collective-Bargaining Elections ¹"), which is excluded from the grid. Footnote 2 appears to contain a misprint: "the total is less than the sum of the figures or the 3 groupings by affiliation" — "or" is almost certainly a typo for "for". Transcribed as printed. The Total row's figures are deliberately smaller than the column sums (per footnote 2), so the apparent total mismatch is not a transcription error.
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.