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Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending (Complainant or Petitioner Identified), Fiscal Year 1959

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1. 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that the union previously certified or currently recognized by their employer as the bargaining representative, no longer represents a majority of the employees in the appropriate unit.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).

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p. 172. Six columns: stub plus Total, AFL-CIO affiliates, Unaffiliated unions, Individuals, Employers. The stub column has no printed heading, so the stub cells of the three heading levels are empty. "Number of cases" spans all five value columns; "Total" is a tall heading spanning heading levels 2 and 3; "Identification of complainant as petitioner" spans the last four columns. The four section lines ("All cases^1", "Unfair labor practice cases", "Representation cases", "Union shop deauthorization cases") are printed as centered banners across the value columns and carry no values. In the Unfair labor practice section, row "Pending June 30, 1959", column Individuals, the thousands separator is printed as a low dot rather than a comma ("2. 938"); transcribed as 2,938, which is confirmed by the row sum 1,229+478+2,938+780 = 5,425. In the Union shop deauthorization section the Employers column holds dash rules on all five rows, transcribed as empty. All row sums and the cross-section sums (unfair labor practice + representation + union shop deauthorization = all cases) agree with the printed totals; no misprints in the figures. Footnote 1's item markers are partly worn: "CC" and "CD" are followed by a single raised dot that is most likely a colon (transcribed as a colon), and "RC" shows no punctuation after the letters. The caption, the running head "Statistical Tables for Fiscal Year 1959", and the page number (161, partly cut off at the foot) are omitted.

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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.