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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls, Fiscal Year 1954
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Number of polls | Employees involved (number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total eligible | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for deauthorization | |||||
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible |
| Total elections | 19 | 12 | 63.2 | 7 | 36.8 | 855 | 204 | 23.9 | 651 | 76.1 | 792 | 92.6 | 378 | 44.2 |
| A. F. L. | 13 | 8 | 61.5 | 5 | 38.5 | 299 | 121 | 40.5 | 178 | 59.5 | 273 | 91.3 | 134 | 44.8 |
| C. I. O. | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 103 | 55 | 53.4 | 48 | 46.6 | 99 | 96.1 | 52 | 50.5 |
| Unaffiliated | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 453 | 28 | 6.2 | 425 | 93.8 | 420 | 92.7 | 192 | 42.4 |
- 1 Sec. 8 (a) (3) of the act requires that, to revoke a union-shop provision, a majority of the employees eligible to vote must vote in favor of deauthorization.
32 of 32 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 177. 15 columns: stub, then 5 under "Number of polls", 5 under "Employees involved (number eligible to vote)", 4 under "Valid votes cast". In the percent columns the decimal point is often faint or dropped in the scan (e.g. "63 2", "23 9", "76 1", "93 8"); these are decimal percentages and are transcribed with a decimal point, consistent with the clearly printed ones ("96.1", "33.3", "6. 2"). All of them check out against the printed counts (e.g. 792/855 = 92.6), so no digits were lost. Row labels "A. F. L." and "C. I. O." are printed with spaced periods, kept as printed. Column and row totals are internally consistent (19 = 12 + 7 = 13 + 3 + 3; 855 = 204 + 651; 792 = 273 + 99 + 420; 378 = 134 + 52 + 192). A stray typesetting mark appears in the "Percent of total eligible" cell of the Total elections row, left of "92.6", and a stray dot left of "66 7" in the C. I. O. row; both read as printing artifacts, not footnote markers or digits.
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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.