NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1955 › Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending (Complainant or Petitioner Identified), Fiscal Year 1955
| Number of cases | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Identification of complainant or petitioner | |||||
| Total | A. F. L. affiliates | C. I. O affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | Individuals | Employers | |
| All cases | ||||||
| Pending July 1, 1954 | 4,394 | 1,849 | 815 | 260 | 1,129 | 341 |
| Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 13,391 | 5,672 | 2,592 | 657 | 3,196 | 1,274 |
| On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 17,785 | 7,521 | 3,407 | 917 | 4,325 | 1,615 |
| Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 13,671 | 5,972 | 2,648 | 735 | 3,091 | 1,225 |
| Pending June 30, 1955 | 4,114 | 1,549 | 759 | 182 | 1,234 | 390 |
| Unfair labor practice cases | ||||||
| Pending July 1, 1954 | 2,672 | 862 | 443 | 114 | 1,019 | 234 |
| Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 6,171 | 1,608 | 990 | 165 | 2,679 | 729 |
| On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 8,843 | 2,470 | 1,433 | 279 | 3,698 | 963 |
| Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 6,171 | 1,739 | 1,014 | 190 | 2,549 | 679 |
| Pending June 30, 1955 | 2,672 | 731 | 419 | 89 | 1,149 | 284 |
| Representation cases | ||||||
| Pending July 1, 1954 | 1,715 | 987 | 372 | 146 | 103 | 107 |
| Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 7,165 | 4,062 | 1,601 | 490 | 467 | 545 |
| On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 8,880 | 5,049 | 1,973 | 636 | 570 | 652 |
| Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 7,442 | 4,231 | 1,634 | 543 | 488 | 546 |
| Pending June 30, 1955 | 1,438 | 818 | 339 | 93 | 82 | 106 |
| Union-shop deauthorization cases | ||||||
| Pending July 1, 1954 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 50 | |
| On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 62 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 57 | |
| Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955 | 58 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 54 | |
| Pending June 30, 1955 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
109 of 109 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 174. Seven columns: stub plus Total, A. F. L. affiliates, C. I. O affiliates, Unaffiliated unions, Individuals, Employers. The stub column carries no printed heading, so cell 0 of each header level is empty. "Total" and the stub are tall/blank across heading levels; "Number of cases" spans all six data columns and "Identification of complainant or petitioner" spans the last five. All four sections are arithmetically consistent as transcribed: in every one of the 20 data rows the five identification columns sum exactly to the printed Total, and in each section Pending July 1 + Received = On docket and On docket - Closed = Pending June 30. No misprints detected. Cell-level observations: - "All cases" section head carries a raised 1 footnote marker; the Unfair labor practice "Pending July 1, 1954" Total carries a raised 2 printed to the LEFT of the value ("2 2,672"), transcribed as 2,672^2. - The All cases "Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 1955" Total prints as "13, 391 ." with a stray mark after the figure; this is a leader-dot/typesetting artifact, and the value is 13,391. - Coincidental repeats that are genuinely as printed, not duplication errors: in Unfair labor practice cases, Received Total and Closed Total are both 6,171, and Pending July 1 Total and Pending June 30 Total are both 2,672. Both pairs check out against their own column sums. - In Union-shop deauthorization cases the Employers column is a dash rule ("------") in all five rows, transcribed as "". - In that same section, Pending June 30, 1955 shows 0 under A. F. L. affiliates and 1 under C. I. O affiliates; this is faint but confirmed by the row sum (0+1+0+3 = 4) and the C. I. O column balance (0 pending + 1 received - 0 closed = 1). Footnote 1 is a long multi-line block of case-type definitions; it is given whole as a single string with its internal line breaks joined. Scan noise leaves a few characters ambiguous within it, rendered here as the obvious intended text: "labor organization" (prints with transposed letters), "section 9 (c) (1) (A) (i)" (opening paren degraded), and "section 8 (b) (4)" in the CC line. The lead-in punctuation after the case codes is inconsistent in the original - CA, CB, RD read as colons, CD and UD as periods, CC has none, and RC/RM print as a raised dot that is almost certainly a colon; colons are used for RC and RM here. The caption, running head and page number are excluded. Nothing appears cut off by the crop.
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.