NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1963 › Industrial Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections, Fiscal Year 1963
| Industrial group | Number of elections | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial group | Total | In which representation rights were won by— | In which no representative was chosen | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast | |
| Industrial group | Total | AFL-CIO affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | In which no representative was chosen | Eligible voters | Valid votes cast |
| Total | 6,871 | 2,565 | 1,487 | 2,819 | 489,365 | 441,969 |
| Manufacturing | 4,002 | 1,561 | 720 | 1,721 | 364,449 | 333,649 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 395 | 355 |
| Food and kindred products | 592 | 165 | 179 | 248 | 33,579 | 30,298 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 962 | 791 |
| Textile Mill products | 66 | 22 | 11 | 33 | 10,382 | 9,421 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabrics and similar materials | 72 | 25 | 7 | 40 | 8,437 | 7,729 |
| Lumber and wood products (except furniture) | 173 | 57 | 32 | 84 | 12,317 | 11,094 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 143 | 59 | 12 | 72 | 13,478 | 12,182 |
| Paper and allied products | 172 | 79 | 31 | 62 | 12,760 | 11,596 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 261 | 98 | 68 | 95 | 6,523 | 6,006 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 309 | 130 | 63 | 116 | 29,258 | 27,039 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 63 | 26 | 19 | 18 | 6,867 | 6,252 |
| Rubber products | 163 | 65 | 19 | 79 | 12,249 | 11,352 |
| Leather and leather products | 68 | 24 | 4 | 40 | 13,620 | 12,524 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 218 | 91 | 48 | 79 | 13,069 | 12,015 |
| Primary metal industries | 246 | 102 | 35 | 109 | 23,525 | 21,844 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 470 | 197 | 62 | 211 | 30,628 | 28,287 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 359 | 160 | 27 | 172 | 38,405 | 35,764 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 295 | 116 | 36 | 143 | 64,261 | 58,588 |
| Aircraft and parts | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 3,742 | 3,477 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 20 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 1,619 | 1,470 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 116 | 60 | 21 | 35 | 13,226 | 11,865 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 48 | 16 | 10 | 22 | 6,944 | 6,286 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 98 | 43 | 21 | 34 | 8,203 | 7,414 |
| Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 43 |
| Mining | 54 | 20 | 16 | 18 | 5,329 | 4,620 |
| Metal mining | 12 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3,135 | 2,895 |
| Coal mining | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 305 | 283 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 554 | 287 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 19 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1,335 | 1,155 |
| Construction | 130 | 55 | 16 | 59 | 5,655 | 4,169 |
| Wholesale trade | 655 | 137 | 253 | 265 | 15,431 | 14,033 |
| Retail trade | 935 | 425 | 132 | 378 | 34,717 | 30,191 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 54 | 33 | 3 | 18 | 3,443 | 3,280 |
| Transportation, communication, and other public utilities | 655 | 176 | 258 | 221 | 39,094 | 35,014 |
| Local passenger transportation | 39 | 17 | 12 | 10 | 3,250 | 2,770 |
| Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services | 425 | 63 | 217 | 145 | 16,748 | 14,941 |
| Water transportation | 39 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 1,453 | 1,176 |
| Other transportation | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 165 | 151 |
| Communication | 74 | 44 | 7 | 23 | 8,049 | 7,293 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 67 | 30 | 9 | 28 | 9,429 | 8,683 |
| Services | 385 | 157 | 89 | 139 | 21,204 | 16,970 |
254 of 254 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 195. Seven columns: stub, then four under the spanner "Number of elections" (Total; AFL-CIO affiliates and Unaffiliated unions under "In which representation rights were won by—"; "In which no representative was chosen"), then "Eligible voters" and "Valid votes cast". Arithmetic checks all pass, which strongly supports the digits: in every one of the six numeric columns the nine major-group rows (Manufacturing, Agriculture, Mining, Construction, Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance, Transportation, Services) sum exactly to the Total row, the 23 manufacturing detail lines sum exactly to the Manufacturing row, the 4 mining detail lines to the Mining row, the 6 transportation detail lines to the Transportation row, and for every row Total = AFL-CIO + Unaffiliated + no representative. Print/scan artifacts in digit grouping, resolved to standard commas: "Valid votes cast" for Aircraft and parts prints as "3 477" with no visible comma (transcribed 3,477; the manufacturing column sum confirms 3,477); "Eligible voters" for Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments prints with a semicolon-like mark, "6;944" (transcribed 6,944, confirmed by the column sum); "Valid votes cast" for Miscellaneous manufacturing prints with a period-like mark, "7. 414" (transcribed 7,414, confirmed by the column sum). The Total row's "6,871" has a broken leading glyph that could be read as 0 or 6; 6,871 is confirmed by the column sum. "Textile Mill products" is transcribed with the capital M as printed. Fine punctuation in the footnote (the colon after "Source" and the periods in "U.S.") is faint or dropped in this scan; it is rendered here in the conventional form. The Services row carries values but, unlike the other major groups, no detail lines follow it before the footnote; the footnote's presence indicates the table ends on this page, but the service detail may continue on a following page not included in this crop.
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.