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Outcome of Collective-Bargaining Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, and Number of Employees in Units, Fiscal Year 1959

printed as Table 13A · source page 184 · nlrb1959_p0184_t0

Affiliation of participating unionsNumber of electionsNumber of employees involved (number eligible to vote)Total valid votes cast
Affiliation of participating unionsTotalIn which representation rights were won by—In which no representative was chosenTotalIn units in which representation rights were won by—In units where no representative was chosenTotal valid votes cast
Affiliation of participating unionsTotalAFL-CIO affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIn which no representative was chosenTotalAFL-CIO affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsIn units where no representative was chosenTotal valid votes cast
Total5,4282,3021,1082,018430,023171,44185,587172,995385,794
1-union elections:
AFL-CIO3,1651,8411,324226,821102,272124,549205,217
Unaffiliated1,39280159140,46321,65518,80836,657
2-union elections
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO2091595031,49715,15016,34728,745
AFL-CIO v. unaffiliated52927021940107,81449,31253,2435,25994,816
Unaffiliated v. unaffiliated656504,9944,99404,568
3-union elections
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO141221,9311,7551761,773
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. unaffiliated3291676,7541,6094,3947516,018
AFL-CIO v unaffiliated v. unaffiliated92431,6557096612851,565
Unaffiliated v. unaffiliated v. unaffiliated1101919016
4-union elections
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO9817,1243046,8205,537
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. unaffiliated v unaffiliated202062106210560
5-union elections. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO1103303300322

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  1. 1 For definition of this term, see table 13, footnote 1.

91 of 91 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 184. Ten columns: stub plus four under "Number of elections", four under "Number of employees involved (number eligible to vote)", and the tall single column "Total valid votes cast". The stub heading, "Total valid votes cast", and the two "no representative was chosen" columns are tall headings repeated across the levels they span. Punctuation in the stub is unreliable in this 1-bit scan. "1-union elections:" shows a clear colon; the "2-union elections", "3-union elections" and "4-union elections" section lines show no colon I can resolve, so they are transcribed bare, and the mark after "5-union elections" reads as a period. In the original these were most likely all colons. Likewise several "v." abbreviations have lost their period in the scan ("AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. unaffiliated", "AFL-CIO v unaffiliated v. unaffiliated", "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO", "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. unaffiliated v unaffiliated", and the second "v" in the 5-union label); these are transcribed as they appear rather than regularized. The "5-union elections. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO" label is printed on two lines and is a single data row carrying values, not a section line. Blank cells are dash rules in the image (an unaffiliated-union column on an all-AFL-CIO row, and vice versa) and are rendered as "". Printed zeros are kept as 0. Arithmetic cross-checks all pass as printed: every data row's three outcome cells sum to its row total for both elections and employees, and all nine value columns sum down to the "Total" row (elections 5,428; 2,302; 1,108; 2,018; employees 430,023; 171,441; 85,587; 172,995; valid votes 385,794). No suspected misprints. The rotated "1856—60——13" at the left edge is a printer's signature mark, not table content, and is excluded.

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Source page 184 of NLRB FY1959 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1959, p. 184.

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.