NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1953 › Voting in Decertification Elections, Fiscal Year 1953
| Union affiliation | Elections in which a representative was redesignated | Elections resulting in decertification | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union affiliation | Employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Percent casting valid votes | Votes cast for winning union | Votes cast for no union | Employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Percent casting valid votes | Votes cast for losing union | Votes cast for no union |
| Total | 4,869 | 4,507 | 92.6 | 2,981 | 1,526 | 5,076 | 4,440 | 87.5 | 1,577 | 2,863 |
| A. F. L. | 1,973 | 1,788 | 90.6 | 1,143 | 645 | 3,168 | 2,735 | 86.3 | 966 | 1,769 |
| C. I. O. | 2,185 | 2,057 | 94.1 | 1,399 | 658 | 1,343 | 1,191 | 88.7 | 448 | 743 |
| Unaffiliated | 711 | 662 | 93.1 | 439 | 223 | 565 | 514 | 91.0 | 163 | 351 |
32 of 32 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
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.
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.