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Voting in Decertification Elections, Fiscal Year 1953

printed as Table 14A · source page 119 · nlrb1953_p0119_t1

Union affiliationElections in which a representative was redesignatedElections resulting in decertification
Union affiliationEmployees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castPercent casting valid votesVotes cast for winning unionVotes cast for no unionEmployees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castPercent casting valid votesVotes cast for losing unionVotes cast for no union
Total4,8694,50792.62,9811,5265,0764,44087.51,5772,863
A. F. L.1,9731,78890.61,1436453,1682,73586.39661,769
C. I. O.2,1852,05794.11,3996581,3431,19188.7448743
Unaffiliated71166293.143922356551491.0163351

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32 of 32 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 119. Eleven columns: the stub plus two five-column panels ("Elections in which a representative was redesignated" and "Elections resulting in decertification"). The two panels are parallel sets of columns for the same rows, not side-by-side panels of different rows, so they stay side by side in the grid. Decimal points in the two "Percent casting valid votes" columns: the scan renders most of these as a gap rather than a visible period (e.g. "92 6", "90 6", "86 3", "91 0"), while the C. I. O. redesignation cell prints a clear point with a following space ("94. 1"). All eight are percentages of the form NN.N, so I have transcribed each with a decimal point: 92.6, 90.6, 94.1, 93.1 (redesignated) and 87.5, 86.3, 88.7, 91.0 (decertification). The "91.0" for Unaffiliated under decertification is the one most dependent on this reading, but it is consistent with 514/565 = 90.97 percent. Arithmetic check (not applied to any cell, only as a check on the digits): in all eight numeric columns the three affiliation rows sum exactly to the printed Total — 1,973+2,185+711=4,869; 1,788+2,057+662=4,507; 1,143+1,399+439=2,981; 645+658+223=1,526; 3,168+1,343+565=5,076; 2,735+1,191+514=4,440; 966+448+163=1,577; 1,769+743+351=2,863. The stub heading "Union affiliation" and the two panel headings each span two heading levels or several columns and are repeated accordingly. A faint stray mark sits in the rule under the "Total valid votes cast" heading of the first panel and another below the table body near the bottom edge; both are scanning artifacts, not type. No footnotes are printed under the table.

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Source page 119 of NLRB FY1953 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1953, p. 119.

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.