NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1961 › Decertification Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, Fiscal Year 1961
| 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 | 241 | 80 | 33.2 | 161 | 66.8 | 18,364 | 7,757 | 42.2 | 10,607 | 57.8 | 16,604 | 90.4 | 9,034 | 54.4 |
| AFL-CIO | 162 | 59 | 36.4 | 103 | 63.6 | 14,898 | 5,247 | 35.2 | 9,651 | 64.8 | 13,527 | 90.8 | 6,871 | 50.8 |
| Unaffiliated | 79 | 21 | 26.6 | 58 | 73.4 | 3,466 | 2,510 | 72.4 | 956 | 27.6 | 3,077 | 88.8 | 2,163 | 70.3 |
24 of 24 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 246. 15 columns: stub plus 5 under "Elections participated in", 5 under "Employees involved in elections (number eligible to vote)", and 4 under "Valid votes cast". No footnotes are printed under the table. Decimal points: the scan is a coarse bitonal image in which the decimal point of every percentage has largely dropped out, so the percentages read on screen as "33 2", "66 8", etc. They are one-decimal percentages in the printed table and are transcribed with the decimal point restored (33.2, 66.8, ...). Two percentage cells were degraded enough that the digits themselves needed checking; both were confirmed by arithmetic against the counts in the same row: Total row, "Employees involved ... Resulting in decertification / Percent of total eligible" reads 57.8 (10,607/18,364 = 57.8, and 42.2 + 57.8 = 100.0) though the leading 5 is blotted and could be misread as an 8; Unaffiliated row, "Valid votes cast / Cast for the union / Percent of total cast" has an illegible final digit, read as 70.3 (2,163/3,077 = 70.3). No printed value appears to be a misprint: all column sums check (162 + 79 = 241; 59 + 21 = 80; 103 + 58 = 161; 14,898 + 3,466 = 18,364; 5,247 + 2,510 = 7,757; 9,651 + 956 = 10,607; 13,527 + 3,077 = 16,604; 6,871 + 2,163 = 9,034), and the certification/decertification components add to each total. These checks were used only to confirm doubtful glyphs; nothing was computed or substituted.
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.