NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1966 › Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1966
Stitched from pp. 229–230.
| Industrial group | Total elections | Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Valid votes cast for unions | Total votes for no union | Employees in units choosing representation | ||||||||
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| Industrial group | Total elections | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Total votes for no union | Employees in units choosing representation |
| Total, all industrial groups | 8,324 | 5,059 | 3,215 | 1,382 | 320 | 142 | 3,265 | 592,722 | 534,454 | 311,383 | 225,952 | 41,335 | 23,743 | 20,353 | 223,071 | 339,407 |
| Manufacturing | 4,798 | 2,840 | 1,970 | 564 | 206 | 100 | 1,958 | 459,146 | 419,874 | 241,246 | 178,712 | 26,630 | 18,106 | 17,798 | 178,628 | 253,532 |
| Ordnance and accessories | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1,330 | 1,130 | 896 | 490 | 0 | 406 | 0 | 234 | 1,114 |
| Food and kindred products | 713 | 423 | 219 | 167 | 25 | 12 | 290 | 53,695 | 47,887 | 29,775 | 17,701 | 7,344 | 2,613 | 2,117 | 18,112 | 35,523 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,729 | 1,460 | 1,154 | 760 | 394 | 0 | 0 | 306 | 1,729 |
| Textile mill products | 109 | 54 | 38 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 55 | 22,269 | 20,546 | 9,525 | 8,213 | 168 | 642 | 502 | 11,021 | 9,332 |
| Apparel and other finished products, made from fabric and similar materials | 88 | 57 | 44 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 31 | 15,813 | 14,215 | 8,303 | 6,779 | 1,330 | 142 | 52 | 5,912 | 10,970 |
| Lumber and wood products (except furniture) | 222 | 133 | 103 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 89 | 15,287 | 13,885 | 7,778 | 6,598 | 549 | 376 | 255 | 6,107 | 8,552 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 143 | 75 | 57 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 68 | 16,543 | 15,235 | 7,794 | 6,172 | 771 | 656 | 195 | 7,441 | 7,670 |
| Paper and allied products | 213 | 136 | 91 | 32 | 8 | 5 | 77 | 21,383 | 19,875 | 12,304 | 9,026 | 2,188 | 817 | 273 | 7,571 | 12,145 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 271 | 157 | 128 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 114 | 9,901 | 9,024 | 5,208 | 4,378 | 441 | 307 | 82 | 3,816 | 5,076 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 326 | 200 | 107 | 57 | 28 | 8 | 126 | 25,927 | 24,262 | 14,430 | 8,995 | 1,422 | 2,941 | 1,072 | 9,832 | 13,363 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 61 | 40 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 4,618 | 4,145 | 3,001 | 1,575 | 386 | 10 | 1,030 | 1,144 | 3,332 |
| Rubber and plastic products | 223 | 123 | 81 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 100 | 21,367 | 19,442 | 11,019 | 8,350 | 1,069 | 578 | 1,022 | 8,423 | 11,155 |
| Leather and leather products | 64 | 25 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 39 | 17,205 | 15,400 | 7,130 | 6,609 | 198 | 184 | 139 | 8,270 | 7,523 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 287 | 186 | 116 | 51 | 13 | 6 | 101 | 22,174 | 20,309 | 11,906 | 9,104 | 1,949 | 436 | 417 | 8,403 | 12,884 |
| Primary metal industries | 281 | 176 | 124 | 26 | 21 | 5 | 105 | 28,416 | 26,446 | 15,920 | 11,593 | 1,116 | 1,797 | 1,414 | 10,526 | 17,165 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 564 | 244 | 273 | 46 | 18 | 7 | 220 | 46,255 | 42,043 | 26,622 | 17,882 | 1,921 | 1,645 | 5,174 | 15,421 | 28,722 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 473 | 273 | 216 | 24 | 21 | 12 | 200 | 46,150 | 42,940 | 24,314 | 18,957 | 1,454 | 1,470 | 2,433 | 18,626 | 23,717 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 279 | 144 | 110 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 135 | 46,778 | 42,652 | 22,396 | 17,579 | 2,530 | 1,686 | 601 | 20,256 | 20,248 |
| Aircraft and parts | 45 | 30 | 22 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 6,957 | 6,345 | 3,102 | 2,623 | 188 | 65 | 226 | 3,243 | 3,516 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 22 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1,806 | 1,675 | 888 | 726 | 0 | 15 | 147 | 787 | 735 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 218 | 142 | 106 | 23 | 7 | 6 | 76 | 18,875 | 17,487 | 10,188 | 8,871 | 663 | 292 | 362 | 7,299 | 12,044 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 59 | 31 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 5,303 | 4,916 | 2,873 | 2,181 | 218 | 474 | 0 | 2,043 | 2,671 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 125 | 70 | 48 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 55 | 9,365 | 8,555 | 4,720 | 3,550 | 331 | 554 | 285 | 3,835 | 4,346 |
| Mining | 115 | 82 | 49 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 33 | 7,372 | 6,671 | 4,364 | 2,434 | 308 | 1,411 | 211 | 2,307 | 5,520 |
| Metal mining | 21 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2,596 | 2,369 | 1,645 | 1,531 | 12 | 40 | 62 | 724 | 2,383 |
| Coal mining | 24 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 1,769 | 1,621 | 1,341 | 23 | 12 | 1,166 | 140 | 280 | 1,515 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 20 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 644 | 551 | 288 | 265 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 263 | 386 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 50 | 36 | 22 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 2,363 | 2,130 | 1,090 | 615 | 261 | 205 | 9 | 1,040 | 1,236 |
| Construction | 223 | 176 | 153 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 47 | 8,154 | 6,257 | 4,526 | 4,009 | 74 | 264 | 179 | 1,731 | 6,627 |
| Wholesale trade | 894 | 523 | 151 | 337 | 27 | 8 | 371 | 17,681 | 16,374 | 9,016 | 3,636 | 4,594 | 390 | 396 | 7,358 | 9,354 |
| Retail trade | 912 | 526 | 373 | 127 | 18 | 8 | 386 | 29,871 | 26,317 | 13,833 | 11,017 | 2,089 | 217 | 510 | 12,484 | 13,003 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 49 | 30 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 1,803 | 1,649 | 953 | 670 | 275 | 8 | 0 | 696 | 1,157 |
| Transportation, communication, and other utilities | 864 | 578 | 309 | 245 | 14 | 10 | 286 | 47,939 | 39,322 | 26,840 | 18,563 | 5,137 | 2,296 | 844 | 12,482 | 37,461 |
| Local passenger transportation | 185 | 133 | 129 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 22,580 | 16,710 | 11,470 | 10,761 | 504 | 0 | 205 | 5,240 | 20,160 |
| Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services | 418 | 265 | 39 | 217 | 4 | 5 | 153 | 8,999 | 8,093 | 4,775 | 1,011 | 3,571 | 30 | 163 | 3,318 | 5,308 |
| Water transportation | 34 | 26 | 17 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 1,279 | 1,026 | 691 | 500 | 10 | 102 | 79 | 335 | 751 |
| Other transportation | 12 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2,012 | 1,842 | 1,367 | 1,027 | 340 | 0 | 0 | 475 | 1,977 |
| Communications | 103 | 66 | 62 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 6,573 | 5,594 | 4,179 | 2,882 | 12 | 1,221 | 64 | 1,415 | 4,497 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 112 | 78 | 55 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 6,496 | 6,057 | 4,358 | 2,382 | 700 | 943 | 333 | 1,699 | 4,768 |
| Services | 469 | 304 | 183 | 88 | 21 | 12 | 165 | 20,756 | 17,990 | 10,605 | 6,911 | 2,228 | 1,051 | 415 | 7,385 | 12,753 |
| Hotel and other lodging places | 57 | 31 | 23 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 26 | 5,858 | 4,956 | 2,627 | 2,114 | 115 | 330 | 68 | 2,329 | 3,465 |
| Personal services | 86 | 53 | 26 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 3,856 | 3,542 | 2,107 | 1,234 | 819 | 46 | 8 | 1,435 | 2,059 |
| Automobile repair, garage, and other miscellaneous repair services | 134 | 92 | 47 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 42 | 2,573 | 2,342 | 1,586 | 787 | 677 | 18 | 104 | 756 | 1,854 |
| Motion picture and other amusement and recreation services | 15 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 765 | 633 | 342 | 158 | 61 | 0 | 123 | 291 | 417 |
| Medical and other health services | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 306 | 291 | 175 | 86 | 61 | 0 | 28 | 116 | 146 |
| Educational services | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| Nonprofit membership organizations | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 327 | 234 | 166 | 98 | 54 | 0 | 14 | 68 | 274 |
| Miscellaneous services | 162 | 110 | 75 | 17 | 15 | 3 | 52 | 7,054 | 5,975 | 3,600 | 2,434 | 441 | 655 | 70 | 2,375 | 4,538 |
748 of 749 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 3 cells break a sum: 'Fabricated metal products (exc', column 3: prints 244, columns 4 to 7 add to 344; 'Fabricated metal products (exc', column 2: prints 564, the subtotals in columns 3 to 8 add to 464; 'Manufacturing', column 3: prints 2,840, rows 'Ordnance and accesso' to 'Miscellaneous manufa' add to 2,740.
p. 229. The crop is the first page of Table 16; the body is cut off after "Ship and boat building and repairing" and the table continues on the following page. The stub heading carries footnote marker 1 ("Industrial group ^1"), but no footnote text is printed within this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Suspected misprint: in the "Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)" row, the "won by unions / Total" cell is printed as 244, but the four union components in that row (273 + 46 + 18 + 7) sum to 344, and 564 total elections minus 220 elections with no representative chosen also gives 344. Transcribed as printed (244); the leading digit is a plausible scan/print ambiguity between 2 and 3. Every other row in the table is internally consistent (union components sum to the won-by-unions total, and union votes plus no-union votes equal total valid votes cast), which supports the rest of the grid. Slightly doubtful cells from blurred type, both in the last column ("Employees in units choosing representation"): "Chemicals and allied products" read as 13,363, and "Products of petroleum and coal" read as 3,332. Neither is arithmetically checkable against other columns. Column structure: 17 columns. The five-column span "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions" (Total, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions) and the five-column span "Valid votes cast for unions" (same five sub-headings) are the only spanning heads; all other headings are tall single columns and are repeated in both heading levels.
p. 230. This crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on the image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 columns (stub + 16 numeric columns), confirmed by counting the vertical column rules and the 16 values in every full data row. The table is also cut off vertically by the crop at both ends: the first row ("Automotive and other transportation equipment") is a continuation of a manufacturing sub-list begun on the previous page, and the body ends at "Miscellaneous services" with a closing rule and no total row or footnote block on this image. Horizontal double rules separate the industry sections (after "Miscellaneous manufacturing", after "Nonmetallic mining and quarrying", after "Finance, insurance, and real estate", after "Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services", and before/after "Services"); these are rules only and are not transcribed as rows. Doubtful cells from scan degradation, all read with reasonable confidence but worth flagging: "Construction" column 2 (reads 176, the 6 is partly filled in); "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" column 2 (reads 578, the 8 is broken); "Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services" column 1 (reads 418, the 8 is broken); "Communications" column 1 (reads 103, the 3 is smudged and there is a stray ink speck under it); "Medical and other health services" column 1 (reads 6). Note the "Educational services" row: the printed value in the last column is 0 while column 15 is 15, which is unusual relative to the pattern of neighbouring rows but is transcribed exactly as printed.
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.