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Decertification Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, Fiscal Year 1956
| Union affiliation | Elections participated in | Employees involved in elections (number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union affiliation | Total | Resulting in certification | Resulting in decertification | Total eligible | Resulting in certification | Resulting in decertification | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for the union | |||||
| Union affiliation | Total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total cast |
| Total elections | 129 | 40 | 31.0 | 89 | 69.0 | 11,289 | 5,691 | 50.4 | 5,598 | 49.6 | 10,289 | 91.1 | 5,528 | 53.7 |
| AFL | 48 | 12 | 25.0 | 36 | 75.0 | 2,278 | 1,164 | 51.1 | 1,114 | 48.9 | 2,111 | 92.7 | 1,028 | 48.7 |
| AFL-CIO | 47 | 16 | 34.0 | 31 | 66.0 | 5,479 | 3,509 | 64.0 | 1,970 | 36.0 | 5,000 | 91.3 | 2,863 | 57.3 |
| CIO | 26 | 11 | 42.3 | 15 | 57.7 | 2,996 | 910 | 30.4 | 2,086 | 69.6 | 2,666 | 89.0 | 1,188 | 44.6 |
| Unaffiliated | 8 | 1 | 12.5 | 7 | 87.5 | 536 | 108 | 20.1 | 428 | 79.9 | 512 | 95.5 | 449 | 87.7 |
- 1 See table 1, footnote 1.
- 2 See table 1, footnote 2.
40 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 190. Decimal points in the percent columns are nearly invisible in this scan: most percents are printed as e.g. "31 0", "69 0", "50 4" with a faint or dropped period, while "53.7" (Total elections, Percent of total cast) shows its period clearly. They are one-decimal percentages and have been transcribed with the decimal point (31.0, 69.0, 50.4, ...). All of them check out arithmetically against the counts in the same row (e.g. 40/129 = 31.0, 36/48 = 75.0, 1,970/5,479 = 36.0), so the reading is not in doubt. In the CIO row, "Cast for the union: Number" is printed as "1. 188" — the digit-grouping comma reads as a period in the scan; it is 1,188 (and 1,188/2,666 = 44.6, matching the percent beside it). Transcribed as 1,188. The raised 1 on AFL and CIO and the raised 2 on AFL-CIO are footnote markers, recorded behind carets. All column sums are internally consistent: 48+47+26+8 = 129 elections; 2,278+5,479+2,996+536 = 11,289 eligible; 5,691+5,598 = 11,289. No misprints detected.
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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.