NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1956 › Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1956
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed |
| Total number of cases closed | 8,070 | 100.0 | 7,093 | 100.0 | 602 | 100.0 | 375 | 100.0 |
| Consent election | 2,131 | 26.4 | 1,981 | 27.9 | 103 | 17.1 | 47 | 12.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,468 | 18.2 | 1,373 | 19.4 | 68 | 11.3 | 27 | 7.2 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 584 | 7.2 | 535 | 7.5 | 34 | 5.6 | 15 | 4.0 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 79 | 1.0 | 73 | 1.0 | 1 | .2 | 5 | 1.3 |
| Stipulated election | 1,757 | 21.8 | 1,634 | 23.0 | 97 | 16.1 | 26 | 7.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 903 | 11.2 | 827 | 11.7 | 68 | 11.3 | 8 | 2.2 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 621 | 7.7 | 591 | 8.3 | 16 | 2.6 | 14 | 3.7 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 93 | 1.2 | 86 | 1.2 | 6 | 1.0 | 1 | .3 |
| After postelection decision | 140 | 1.7 | 130 | 1.8 | 7 | 1.2 | 3 | .8 |
| Withdrawn | 1,959 | 24.3 | 1,624 | 22.9 | 203 | 33.7 | 132 | 35.2 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,195 | 14.8 | 1,004 | 14.1 | 112 | 18.6 | 79 | 21.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 563 | 7.0 | 440 | 6.2 | 78 | 12.9 | 45 | 12.0 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 119 | 1.5 | 104 | 1.5 | 9 | 1.5 | 6 | 1.6 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 82 | 1.0 | 76 | 1.1 | 4 | .7 | 2 | .5 |
| Dismissed | 975 | 12.1 | 739 | 10.4 | 123 | 20.5 | 113 | 30.1 |
| Before notice of hearing | 596 | 7.4 | 458 | 6.4 | 71 | 11.8 | 67 | 17.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 82 | 1.0 | 59 | .8 | 12 | 2.0 | 11 | 2.9 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 24 | .3 | 19 | .3 | 3 | .5 | 2 | .5 |
| By Board decision | 273 | 3.4 | 203 | 2.9 | 37 | 6.2 | 33 | 8.8 |
| Board-ordered election | 1,240 | 15.3 | 1,110 | 15.7 | 73 | 12.1 | 57 | 15.2 |
| Otherwise | 8 | .1 | 5 | .1 | 3 | .5 | 0 | .0 |
87 of 87 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 185. Grid is 9 columns: stub plus four case-type panels (All R, RC, RM, RD), each with a "Number of cases" and a "Percent of cases closed" column. The stub heading "Method and stage of disposition" spans both header levels and is repeated in each. Decimal points: the scan is a coarse bitonal image in which many decimal points in the percent columns failed to print/reproduce, so they appear as a blank gap (e.g. RC "100 0" in the total row, All R "18 2" and RD "7 2" in the first "Before notice of hearing" row, All R "24 3" and RC "22 9" in "Withdrawn", RC "15 7" and RM "12 1" in "Board-ordered election", and similar cells elsewhere). These are unambiguously one-decimal percentages in a column where every other value is printed with a point, so I transcribed them with the decimal point restored rather than as a space. No digits were altered. "By Board decision", All R cases / Number of cases: printed as a raised 2 immediately before 273; read as the footnote-2 marker and recorded as 273^2. Indentation is not encoded in the grid: the indented rows ("Before notice of hearing", "After notice of hearing, before hearing opened", "After hearing opened, before Board decision", "After Board decision and direction of election", "After postelection decision") are subordinate to the preceding flush-left method row (Consent election, Stipulated election, Withdrawn, Dismissed), and several of those labels repeat verbatim under more than one method. Arithmetic as printed: the method-level numbers for All R cases (2,131 + 1,757 + 1,959 + 975 + 1,240 + 8) sum to 8,070, matching the printed total; no misprints detected. 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.