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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1968
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | UD cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total, all | 12,409 | 100.0 | 10,559 | 100.0 | 1,103 | 100.0 | 747 | 100.0 | 143 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 8,050 | 64.9 | 7,264 | 68.8 | 540 | 48.9 | 246 | 32.9 | 73 | 51.0 |
| After | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 2,438 | 19.7 | 2,192 | 20.8 | 156 | 14.1 | 90 | 12.0 | 17 | 11.9 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,608 | 13.0 | 1,429 | 13.5 | 119 | 10.8 | 60 | 8.0 | 17 | 11.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 822 | 6.6 | 756 | 7.2 | 36 | 3.2 | 30 | 4.0 | 0 | |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 8 | 0.1 | 7 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Stipulated election | 3,878 | 31.2 | 3,510 | 33.2 | 280 | 25.4 | 88 | 11.8 | 10 | 7.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,891 | 15.2 | 1,666 | 15.8 | 175 | 15.9 | 50 | 6.7 | 10 | 7.0 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,963 | 15.8 | 1,821 | 17.2 | 104 | 9.4 | 38 | 5.1 | 0 | |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 24 | 0.2 | 23 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Expedited election | 17 | 0.1 | 0 | 17 | 1.5 | 0 | ||||
| Regional director-directed election | 1,599 | 12.9 | 1,455 | 13.8 | 78 | 7.1 | 66 | 8.8 | 46 | 32.1 |
| Board-directed election | 118 | 1.0 | 107 | 1.0 | 9 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | |
| By withdrawal, total | 3,045 | 24.5 | 2,361 | 22.4 | 389 | 35.3 | 295 | 39.5 | 55 | 38.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,772 | 14.2 | 1,247 | 11.8 | 300 | 27.2 | 225 | 30.1 | 54 | 37.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,052 | 8.5 | 909 | 8.6 | 81 | 7.3 | 62 | 8.3 | 1 | 0.7 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 42 | 0.3 | 37 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | ||
| After regional director's decision and direction of election | 171 | 1.4 | 160 | 1.5 | 3 | 0.3 | 8 | 1.1 | 0 | |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 8 | 0.1 | 8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| By dismissal, total | 1,314 | 10.6 | 934 | 8.8 | 174 | 15.8 | 206 | 27.6 | 15 | 10.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 892 | 7.2 | 595 | 5.6 | 132 | 12.0 | 165 | 22.1 | 14 | 9.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 85 | 0.7 | 56 | 0.5 | 11 | 1.0 | 18 | 2.4 | 1 | 0.7 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| By regional director's decision | 266 | 2.1 | 220 | 2.1 | 23 | 2.1 | 23 | 3.1 | 0 | |
| By Board decision | 69 | 0.6 | 62 | 0.6 | 7 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | ||
- 1 See "Glossary" for definitions of terms.
104 of 104 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 230. 11 columns: stub plus five two-column panels (All R, RC, RM, RD, UD cases), each Number/Percent. The stub heading "Method and stage of disposition" spans both heading levels and is repeated in each. Decimal points: in this scan the period in most percent figures is very faint or dropped by the printing (it reads as "64 9", "100 0"), but every percent in the table is set to one decimal place and the computed values confirm it, so decimal points are restored throughout (e.g. "100.0", "64.9"). Only a handful of cells (e.g. All R "7.2", RC "1.0", RM "9.4", "0.3", "12.0") show the point clearly in the image. "After" (the line above "Consent election") is a printed section label with no values; "Consent election", "Stipulated election", "Expedited election", "Regional director-directed election" and "Board-directed election" are its subordinate rows. Dash rules: a percent cell that holds only a dashed leader/rule (used wherever the paired Number is 0) is transcribed as "". Several of these rules are faint or partly printed, e.g. UD Percent on "After notice of hearing, before hearing closed" under Stipulated election, and RD Percent on "Expedited election", where no rule is clearly visible but the cell is empty of digits either way. Doubtful cells: (1) "Expedited election" — both UD cells appear blank in the image rather than carrying "0" and a dash rule as the neighbouring RC and RD panels do; the UD certification components (17+10+0+46+0) still sum to the printed 73, so a blank or a 0 is equally consistent arithmetically. (2) "Before notice of hearing" under "By withdrawal, total", All R cases Percent, read as "14.2": 1,772/12,409 = 14.28 percent, which should round to 14.3, and every other percent in the table rounds correctly, so this is either a printing error in the source or a faint "3" misread as "2"; transcribed as printed. All internal arithmetic otherwise checks: each panel's component rows sum exactly to their subtotals and the three subtotals sum to the printed "Total, all" in all five panels.
Source image
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.