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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls, Fiscal Year 1956
| 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 | 13 | 68.4 | 6 | 31.6 | 2,000 | 831 | 41.6 | 1,169 | 58.4 | 1,652 | 82.6 | 848 | 42.4 |
| AFL | 5 | 4 | 80.0 | 1 | 20.0 | 412 | 279 | 67.7 | 133 | 32.3 | 360 | 87.4 | 257 | 62.4 |
| AFL-CIO | 7 | 5 | 71.4 | 2 | 28.6 | 741 | 165 | 22.3 | 576 | 77.7 | 617 | 83.3 | 264 | 35.6 |
| CIO | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 2 | 50.0 | 450 | 87 | 19.3 | 363 | 80.7 | 343 | 76.2 | 127 | 28.2 |
| Unaffiliated | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 397 | 300 | 75.6 | 97 | 24.4 | 332 | 83.6 | 200 | 50.4 |
- 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.
- 2 See table 1, footnote 1.
- 3 See table 1, footnote 2.
40 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 187. 15 columns: stub plus three spanner groups (Number of polls, 5 columns; Employees involved, 5 columns; Valid votes cast, 4 columns). Typography: the scan renders decimal points in the percent columns and digit-grouping commas very faintly or not at all (printed as "68 4", "2 000"); they are transcribed as "68.4" and "2,000" on the evidence of column context and the fact that every percent column carries exactly one decimal place. The AFL-CIO "Valid votes cast / Total" cell images as "6ı7" with a broken middle digit; it is read as 617, which is confirmed by the column summing to the printed total 1,652. All eight numeric columns that admit a check sum exactly to the "Total elections" line (polls 5+7+4+3=19; deauthorization polls 13; continued 6; eligible 2,000; employees deauthorized 831; continued 1,169; valid votes 1,652; cast for deauthorization 848), so no misprints are suspected. The first body row is labelled "Total elections" even though the table reports polls; transcribed as printed. The raised 1 on the last column heading and the raised 2/3 on the AFL, CIO and AFL-CIO stub labels are footnote markers, written behind carets.
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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.