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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1966

printed as Table 16 · source pages 229–230 · nlrb1966_p0229_t0

Stitched from pp. 229–230.

Industrial groupTotal electionsNumber of elections in which representation rights were won by unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castValid votes cast for unionsTotal votes for no unionEmployees in units choosing representation
Industrial groupTotal electionsTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEmployees in units choosing representation
Total, all industrial groups8,3245,0593,2151,3823201423,265592,722534,454311,383225,95241,33523,74320,353223,071339,407
Manufacturing4,7982,8401,9705642061001,958459,146419,874241,246178,71226,63018,10617,798178,628253,532
Ordnance and accessories85302031,3301,130896490040602341,114
Food and kindred products713423219167251229053,69547,88729,77517,7017,3442,6132,11718,11235,523
Tobacco manufacturers44220001,7291,4601,154760394003061,729
Textile mill products10954388265522,26920,5469,5258,21316864250211,0219,332
Apparel and other finished products, made from fabric and similar materials88574410123115,81314,2158,3036,7791,330142525,91210,970
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)22213310318848915,28713,8857,7786,5985493762556,1078,552
Furniture and fixtures143755710536816,54315,2357,7946,1727716561957,4417,670
Paper and allied products2131369132857721,38319,87512,3049,0262,1888172737,57112,145
Printing, publishing, and allied industries271157128151131149,9019,0245,2084,378441307823,8165,076
Chemicals and allied products3262001075728812625,92724,26214,4308,9951,4222,9411,0729,83213,363
Products of petroleum and coal6140231214214,6184,1453,0011,575386101,0301,1443,332
Rubber and plastic products22312381289510021,36719,44211,0198,3501,0695781,0228,42311,155
Leather and leather products6425220213917,20515,4007,1306,6091981841398,2707,523
Stone, clay, and glass products2871861165113610122,17420,30911,9069,1041,9494364178,40312,884
Primary metal industries2811761242621510528,41626,44615,92011,5931,1161,7971,41410,52617,165
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)5642442734618722046,25542,04326,62217,8821,9211,6455,17415,42128,722
Machinery (except electrical)47327321624211220046,15042,94024,31418,9571,4541,4702,43318,62623,717
Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies2791441102010413546,77842,65222,39617,5792,5301,68660120,25620,248
Aircraft and parts453022323156,9576,3453,1022,623188652263,2433,516
Ship and boat building and repairing221211010101,8061,675888726015147787735
Automotive and other transportation equipment21814210623767618,87517,48710,1888,8716632923627,29912,044
Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments593126320285,3034,9162,8732,18121847402,0432,671
Miscellaneous manufacturing1257048994559,3658,5554,7203,5503315542853,8354,346
Mining115824910230337,3726,6714,3642,4343081,4112112,3075,520
Metal mining21151212062,5962,3691,6451,5311240627242,383
Coal mining24182115061,7691,6211,34123121,1661402801,515
Crude petroleum and natural gas production20131300076445512882652300263386
Nonmetallic mining and quarrying503622860142,3632,1301,09061526120591,0401,236
Construction2231761538114478,1546,2574,5264,009742641791,7316,627
Wholesale trade89452315133727837117,68116,3749,0163,6364,5943903967,3589,354
Retail trade91252637312718838629,87126,31713,83311,0172,08921751012,48413,003
Finance, insurance, and real estate493027300191,8031,649953670275806961,157
Transportation, communication, and other utilities864578309245141028647,93939,32226,84018,5635,1372,29684412,48237,461
Local passenger transportation1851331293015222,58016,71011,47010,76150402055,24020,160
Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services41826539217451538,9998,0934,7751,0113,571301633,3185,308
Water transportation34261726181,2791,0266915001010279335751
Other transportation1210730022,0121,8421,3671,027340004751,977
Communications1036662121376,5735,5944,1792,882121,221641,4154,497
Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services11278551922346,4966,0574,3582,3827009433331,6994,768
Services46930418388211216520,75617,99010,6056,9112,2281,0514157,38512,753
Hotel and other lodging places573123332265,8584,9562,6272,114115330682,3293,465
Personal services8653262520333,8563,5422,1071,2348194681,4352,059
Automobile repair, garage, and other miscellaneous repair services13492474014422,5732,3421,586787677181047561,854
Motion picture and other amusement and recreation services151090015765633342158610123291417
Medical and other health services63210033062911758661028116146
Educational services2000002171720020150
Nonprofit membership organizations7512022327234166985401468274
Miscellaneous services1621107517153527,0545,9753,6002,434441655702,3754,538

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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.

Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 229 of NLRB FY1966 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1966, p. 229.
Source page 230 of NLRB FY1966 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1966, p. 230.

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.