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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1957
| 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 | 7,514 | 100.0 | 6,551 | 100.0 | 607 | 100.0 | 356 | 100.0 |
| Consent election | 2,080 | 27.7 | 1,915 | 29.2 | 112 | 18.5 | 53 | 14.9 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,534 | 20.4 | 1,420 | 21.7 | 79 | 13.0 | 35 | 9.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 456 | 6.1 | 413 | 6.3 | 30 | 5.0 | 13 | 3.7 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 90 | 1.2 | 82 | 1.2 | 3 | .5 | 5 | 1.4 |
| Stipulated election | 1,700 | 22.6 | 1,569 | 24.0 | 96 | 15.8 | 35 | 9.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 975 | 13.0 | 910 | 13.9 | 54 | 8.9 | 11 | 3.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 498 | 6.6 | 458 | 7.0 | 22 | 3.6 | 18 | 5.1 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 94 | 1.2 | 87 | 1.3 | 3 | .5 | 4 | 1.1 |
| After postelection decision | 133 | 1.8 | 114 | 1.8 | 17 | 2.8 | 2 | .5 |
| Withdrawn | 1,761 | 23.4 | 1,441 | 22.0 | 205 | 33.8 | 115 | 32.3 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,089 | 14.5 | 886 | 13.5 | 129 | 21.3 | 74 | 20.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 454 | 6.0 | 372 | 5.7 | 54 | 8.9 | 28 | 7.9 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 119 | 1.6 | 93 | 1.4 | 20 | 3.3 | 6 | 1.6 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 99 | 1.3 | 90 | 1.4 | 2 | .3 | 7 | 2.0 |
| Dismissed | 818 | 10.9 | 583 | 8.8 | 139 | 22.9 | 96 | 27.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 495 | 6.6 | 323 | 4.9 | 104 | 17.1 | 68 | 19.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing opened | 62 | .8 | 45 | .7 | 10 | 1.6 | 7 | 2.0 |
| After hearing opened, before Board decision | 26 | .4 | 23 | .3 | 1 | .2 | 2 | .6 |
| By Board decision | 235 | 3.1 | 192 | 2.9 | 24 | 4.0 | 19 | 5.3 |
| Board-ordered election | 1,155 | 15.4 | 1,043 | 16.0 | 55 | 9.0 | 57 | 16.0 |
- 1 See table 1, footnote 1, for definitions of types of cases.
- 2 Includes 11 RC, 10 RM, and 7 RD cases dismissed by Board order after a direction of election issued but before an election was held.
84 of 84 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 183. Nine columns: stub plus four two-column panels (All R, RC, RM, RD), each with "Number of cases" and "Percent of cases closed". The stub heading "Method and stage of disposition" spans both heading levels. Decimal points: the scan drops or badly fades the period in a large share of the percent cells (e.g. the All R and RC "100 0" in the total row, "29 2", "18 5", "14 9", "13 0", "15 8", "8 9", "21 3", "33 8", "3 1", "2 9", "4 0", "16 0", "9 0"). Every percent column is printed to one decimal place throughout, so I have transcribed these with the decimal point restored. Likewise the cells printed as a bare digit are the sub-one-percent values with a faded leading period: "After hearing opened, before Board decision" (both the Consent election and the Stipulated election blocks), RM percent = ".5"; "After postelection decision", RD percent = ".5"; "After Board decision and direction of election", RM percent = ".3"; "After hearing opened, before Board decision" under Dismissed, RC percent = ".3" and RM percent = ".2". Doubtful cell: "After postelection decision", RD "Percent of cases closed". Only the digit 5 is legible and the leading period is inferred. Note that 2 of 356 is 0.56 percent, which the comparable cell ("After hearing opened, before Board decision" under Dismissed, same 2 of 356) prints as ".6"; this cell reads ".5". Transcribed as printed, not reconciled. "By Board decision", All R "Number of cases" carries a raised 2 printed before the figure; recorded as 235^2. Four row labels repeat verbatim in several blocks ("Before notice of hearing", "After notice of hearing, before hearing opened", "After hearing opened, before Board decision"); they are indented sub-rows of the preceding method row (Consent election, Stipulated election, Withdrawn, Dismissed) and are transcribed in printed order without adding any qualifier. Arithmetic check (not an alteration, just confirmation of column placement): in all four panels the indented sub-rows sum exactly to their method row, and the five method rows sum exactly to the printed total, in every one of the four "Number of cases" columns.
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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.