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Collective-Bargaining Elections by Affiliation of Participating Unions, Fiscal Year 1962
| Union affiliation | Elections participated in | Employees involved (number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Union affiliation | Total | Won | Percent won | Total eligible | Employees in units selecting bargaining agent | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for the union | ||
| Union affiliation | Total | Won | Percent won | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total cast |
| Total | 7,355 | 4,305 | 58.5 | 536,047 | 305,976 | 57.1 | 482,558 | 90.0 | 299,547 | 62.1 |
| AFL-CIO | 5,049 | 2,708 | 53.6 | 453,277 | 190,858 | 42.1 | 408,421 | 90.1 | 197,038 | 48.2 |
| Unaffiliated | 3,014 | 1,597 | 53.0 | 221,125 | 115,118 | 52.1 | 196,535 | 88.9 | 102,509 | 52.2 |
- 1 The term "collective-bargaining election" is used to cover representation elections requested by a union or other candidate for employee representation or by the employer. This term is used to distinguish this type of election from a decertification election, which is one requested by employees seeking to revoke the representation rights of a union which is already certified or which is recognized by the employer without a Board certification.
- 2 Elections involving 2 unions of different affiliations are counted under each affiliation, but only once in the total. Therefore, the total is less than the sum of the figures of the 2 groupings by affiliation.
0 of 18 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 288. 11 columns, 3 heading levels. The scan is worn: decimal points in the percent columns are often reduced to a faint gap (e.g. the Total row prints as "58 5", "57 1", "90 0", "62. 1"); these are decimal points and are transcribed as 58.5, 57.1, 90.0, 62.1, likewise 53.6, 48.2, 53.0, 52.2. The raised 2 printed to the left of 7,355, 536,047 and 482,558 in the Total row is footnote marker 2, moved behind a caret. Per footnote 2 the Total row is deliberately less than the sum of the AFL-CIO and Unaffiliated rows (elections with 2 unions of different affiliations counted once in the total), so the apparent total mismatches are as printed and intended. Characters in the right-hand columns of the Unaffiliated row are degraded by ink spread; 196,535 and 102,509 are my best reading and are the cells most at risk. The period ending the first sentence of footnote 1 (after "by the employer") is not legible in the scan but is supplied as sentence punctuation.
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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.