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Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending (Complainant or Petitioner Identified), Fiscal Year 1957
| Number of cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Identification of complainant or petitioner | ||||
| Total | AFL-CIO affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | Individuals | Employers | |
| All cases | |||||
| Pending July 1, 1956 | 3,768 | 2,130 | 186 | 998 | 454 |
| Received fiscal 1957 | 13,356 | 8,401 | 769 | 2,727 | 1,459 |
| On docket fiscal 1957 | 17,124 | 10,531 | 955 | 3,725 | 1,913 |
| Closed fiscal 1957 | 12,708 | 8,153 | 707 | 2,483 | 1,365 |
| Pending June 30, 1957 | 4,416 | 2,378 | 248 | 1,242 | 548 |
| Unfair labor practice cases | |||||
| Pending July 1, 1956 | 2,318 | 964 | 72 | 927 | 355 |
| Received fiscal 1957 | 5,506 | 2,233 | 170 | 2,299 | 804 |
| On docket fiscal 1957 | 7,824 | 3,197 | 242 | 3,226 | 1,159 |
| Closed fiscal 1957 | 5,144 | 2,160 | 156 | 2,071 | 757 |
| Pending June 30, 1957 | 2,680 | 1,037 | 86 | 1,155 | 402 |
| Representation cases | |||||
| Pending July 1, 1956 | 1,444 | 1,166 | 114 | 65 | 99 |
| Received fiscal 1957 | 7,797 | 6,168 | 598 | 376 | 655 |
| On docket fiscal 1957 | 9,241 | 7,334 | 712 | 441 | 754 |
| Closed fiscal 1957 | 7,514 | 5,993 | 551 | 362 | 608 |
| Pending June 30, 1957 | 1,727 | 1,341 | 161 | 79 | 146 |
| Union-shop deauthorization cases | |||||
| Pending July 1, 1956 | 6 | 6 | |||
| Received fiscal 1957 | 53 | 1 | 52 | ||
| On docket fiscal 1957 | 59 | 1 | 58 | ||
| Closed fiscal 1957 | 50 | 0 | 50 | ||
| Pending June 30, 1957 | 9 | 1 | 8 | ||
- 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 sec 8 (a). CB A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under sec. 8 (b) (1), (2), (3), (5), (6). CC A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under sec. 8 (b) (4) (A), (B), (C) CD: A charge of unfair labor practices against a union under sec. 8 (b) (4) (D). RC: A petition by a labor organization or employees for certification of a representative for purposes of collective bargaining under sec. 9(c) (1) (A) (i). RM A petition by employer for certification of a representative for purposes of collective bargaining under sec. 9 (c) (1) (B). RD: A petition by employees under sec. 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 sec. 9 (e) (1) asking for a referendum to rescind a bargaining agent's authority to make a union-shop contract under sec. 8 (a) (3).
88 of 88 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 174. Six columns: stub, Total, and the four columns under "Identification of complainant or petitioner" (AFL-CIO affiliates, Unaffiliated unions, Individuals, Employers). The stub has no printed heading, so the stub cell is empty in all three heading levels; "Total" spans heading levels 2 and 3 and is repeated. The four section lines ("All cases^1", "Unfair labor practice cases", "Representation cases", "Union-shop deauthorization cases") are centred banner rows spanning the body with no values. Doubtful cell: "Unfair labor practice cases" / "Closed fiscal 1957" / Unaffiliated unions prints as ".156" — there is a stray dot (ink speck or stray leader) before the digits. Transcribed as 156, which is what the arithmetic supports (2,160 + 156 + 2,071 + 757 = 5,144, and 156 + 551 + 0 = 707 in the All-cases line). In the "Union-shop deauthorization cases" panel the AFL-CIO affiliates and Employers columns hold dash rules in every row, and the Unaffiliated unions cell on the "Pending July 1, 1956" line is also a dash rule; all are transcribed as "". The printed 0 in that panel's "Closed fiscal 1957" / Unaffiliated unions cell is kept as 0. All row and column sums check out against the printed totals (All cases = unfair labor practice + representation + union-shop deauthorization, and Total = sum of the four identification columns in every row), so no misprints are suspected beyond the stray dot noted above. The caption ("APPENDIX A / Statistical Tables for Fiscal Year 1957 / Table 1.—Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending (Complainant or Petitioner Identified), Fiscal Year 1957") and the page number at the foot are omitted as instructed. Footnote 1's definition list (CA through UD) is printed as an indented block under the table and is returned as part of the single footnote 1 string; some of its colons after the case codes (CB, CC, RM) are missing or faint in the scan and are transcribed as they appear.
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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.