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Outcome of Collective-Bargaining Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, and Number of Employees in Units, Fiscal Year 1953

printed as Table 13A · source page 116 · nlrb1953_p0116_t0

Affiliation of participating unionsNumber of electionsNumber of employees involved (number eligible to vote)
Affiliation of participating unionsTotalin which representation rights were won by—in which no representative was chosenTotalin units in which representation rights were won by—in units where no representative was chosen
Affiliation of participating unionsTotalA. F. L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsin which no representative was chosenTotalA. F. L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsin units where no representative was chosen
Total6,0502,7501,1144861,700737,998267,925217,16599,360153,548
1-union elections
A. F. L.3,0312,0111,020167,88899,76568,123
C. I. O.1,226763463134,79073,64961,141
Unaffiliated3592798023,40919,5843,825
2-union elections
A. F. L.-C. I. O.65032426660215,050107,77394,07513,202
A. F. L.-unaffiliated214106891938,79618,09519,3711,330
A. F. L.-A. F. L.2742423239,84837,6912,157
C. I. O.-unaffiliated1526086672,41333,43838,108867
C. I. O.-C. I. O.321342113
Unaffiliated-unaffiliated161512,1962,1924
3-union elections:
A. F. L.-C. I. O.-unaffiliated54211415433,4261,57814,22817,331289
A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.9631,001677324
A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O.48307115,2171,3391,6052,273
A. F. L.-A. F. L.-unaffiliated550038938900
A. F. L.-C. I. O.-C. I. O.32107005841160
C. I. O.-unaffiliated-unaffiliated20202,77402,7740
4-union elections.
A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.11020200
A. F. L.-A. F. L.-A. F. L.-C. I. O.32104714330

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  1. 1 For definition of this term, see footnote 1, table 13.

118 of 118 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 116 of NLRB FY1953 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1953, p. 116.

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.