NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1953 › Outcome of Collective-Bargaining Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, and Number of Employees in Units, Fiscal Year 1953
| 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 | 6,050 | 2,750 | 1,114 | 486 | 1,700 | 737,998 | 267,925 | 217,165 | 99,360 | 153,548 |
| 1-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L. | 3,031 | 2,011 | 1,020 | 167,888 | 99,765 | 68,123 | ||||
| C. I. O. | 1,226 | 763 | 463 | 134,790 | 73,649 | 61,141 | ||||
| Unaffiliated | 359 | 279 | 80 | 23,409 | 19,584 | 3,825 | ||||
| 2-union elections | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-C. I. O. | 650 | 324 | 266 | 60 | 215,050 | 107,773 | 94,075 | 13,202 | ||
| A. F. L.-unaffiliated | 214 | 106 | 89 | 19 | 38,796 | 18,095 | 19,371 | 1,330 | ||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L. | 274 | 242 | 32 | 39,848 | 37,691 | 2,157 | ||||
| C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 152 | 60 | 86 | 6 | 72,413 | 33,438 | 38,108 | 867 | ||
| C. I. O.-C. I. O. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 34 | 21 | 13 | ||||
| Unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 16 | 15 | 1 | 2,196 | 2,192 | 4 | ||||
| 3-union elections: | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated | 54 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 33,426 | 1,578 | 14,228 | 17,331 | 289 |
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L. | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1,001 | 677 | 324 | ||||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O. | 48 | 30 | 7 | 11 | 5,217 | 1,339 | 1,605 | 2,273 | ||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-unaffiliated | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 389 | 389 | 0 | 0 | ||
| A. F. L.-C. I. O.-C. I. O. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 700 | 584 | 116 | 0 | ||
| C. I. O.-unaffiliated-unaffiliated | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2,774 | 0 | 2,774 | 0 | ||
| 4-union elections. | ||||||||||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | ||||
| A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 47 | 14 | 33 | 0 | ||
118 of 118 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 116. Grid is 11 columns: stub + 5 under "Number of elections" + 5 under "Number of employees involved (number eligible to vote)". All blank/dash-rule cells are rendered as "". Arithmetic check (no corrections made, reported only for confidence): every data row's component columns sum to its row total in both panels, and every column of data rows sums to the printed "Total" row. No discrepancies found. Typography: the scan's periods in "A. F. L." and "C. I. O." are faint or dropped in places (e.g. the 1-union stub entries, the "A. F. L. affiliates" heading over the elections panel, and the fourth element of "A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L."). These are transcribed in the consistent printed form with periods. Stray ink: small dash/dot marks sit just left of several right-hand values — "13,202" and "17,331" and "289" (employees columns), and "60" in the C. I. O. column for "C. I. O.-unaffiliated". These read as leader-dot or dash-rule artifacts from the adjacent cell, not footnote markers or minus signs, and are not transcribed. The "A. F. L.-C. I. O." (2-union) row's Unaffiliated-unions employees cell holds a short dash rule, transcribed as "". The caption carries footnote marker 1 on "Collective-Bargaining Elections"; the caption itself is excluded per instructions, but that is what footnote 1 refers to.
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.