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Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending (Complainant or Petitioner Identified), Fiscal Year 1955

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Number of cases
TotalIdentification of complainant or petitioner
TotalA. F. L. affiliatesC. I. O affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIndividualsEmployers
All cases
Pending July 1, 19544,3941,8498152601,129341
Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 195513,3915,6722,5926573,1961,274
On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 195517,7857,5213,4079174,3251,615
Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 195513,6715,9722,6487353,0911,225
Pending June 30, 19554,1141,5497591821,234390
Unfair labor practice cases
Pending July 1, 19542,6728624431141,019234
Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 19556,1711,6089901652,679729
On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 19558,8432,4701,4332793,698963
Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 19556,1711,7391,0141902,549679
Pending June 30, 19552,672731419891,149284
Representation cases
Pending July 1, 19541,715987372146103107
Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 19557,1654,0621,601490467545
On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 19558,8805,0491,973636570652
Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 19557,4424,2311,634543488546
Pending June 30, 19551,4388183399382106
Union-shop deauthorization cases
Pending July 1, 195470007
Received July 1, 1954-June 30, 19555521250
On docket July 1, 1954-June 30, 19556221257
Closed July 1, 1954-June 30, 19555820254
Pending June 30, 195540103

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  1. 1 Definitions of Types of Cases Used in Tables. The following designations, used by the Board in numbering cases, are used in the tables in this appendix to designate the various types of cases: CA: A charge of unfair labor practices against an employer under section 8(a). CB: A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under section 8 (b) (1), (2), (3), (5), (6). CC A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under section 8 (b) (4) (A), (B), (C). CD. A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under section 8 (b) (4) (D) RC: A petition by a labor organization or employees for certification of a representative for purposes of collective bargaining under section 9 (c) (1) (A) (i). RM: A petition by employer for certification of a representative for purposes of collective bargaining under section 9 (c) (1) (B). RD: A petition by employees under section 9 (c) (1) (A) (ii) asserting that the union previously certified or currently recognized by their employer as the bargaining representative, no longer represents a majority of the employees in the appropriate unit. UD. A petition by employees under section 9 (e) (1) asking for a referendum to rescind a bargaining agent's authority to make a union-shop contract under section 8 (a) (3)
  2. 2 Includes 12 cases filed under the National Labor Relations Act, prior to amendment. Of this number 10 were closed during the fiscal year leaving 2 pending on June 30, 1955

109 of 109 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

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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.

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Source page 174 of NLRB FY1955 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1955, p. 174.

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