NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1971 › Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1971
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Formal actions taken by type of case | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Total formal actions taken | RC | RM | RD | UD |
| Hearing completed, total | 2,701 | 2,397 | 2,181 | 114 | 102 | 4 |
| Initial hearings | 2,455 | 2,161 | 1,968 | 98 | 95 | 2 |
| Hearings on objections and/or challenges | 246 | 236 | 213 | 16 | 7 | 2 |
| Decisions issued, total | 2,313 | 2,087 | 1,901 | 92 | 94 | 2 |
| By regional directors | 2,088 | 1,947 | 1,780 | 80 | 87 | 2 |
| Elections directed | 1,825 | 1,716 | 1,581 | 66 | 69 | 2 |
| Dismissals on record | 263 | 231 | 199 | 14 | 18 | 0 |
| By Board | 225 | 140 | 121 | 12 | 7 | 0 |
| After transfer by regional directors for initial decision | 193 | 109 | 94 | 10 | 5 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 118 | 80 | 72 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 75 | 29 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| After review of regional directors' decision | 32 | 31 | 27 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 23 | 22 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 9 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | |
| Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total | 890 | 875 | 810 | 47 | 18 | 9 |
| By regional directors | 326 | 317 | 298 | 13 | 6 | 6 |
| By Board | 564 | 558 | 512 | 34 | 12 | 3 |
| In stipulated elections | 535 | 529 | 484 | 34 | 11 | 0 |
| No exceptions to regional directors' report | 330 | 327 | 297 | 22 | 8 | 0 |
| Exceptions to regional directors' reports | 205 | 202 | 187 | 12 | 3 | 0 |
| In directed elections (after transfer by regional directors) | 22 | 22 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| In directed elections after review of regional directors' supplemental decisions | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
117 of 117 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 166. Seven printed columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken" (a tall heading spanning both header levels), then "Total formal actions taken", RC, RM, RD, UD under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case". A double vertical rule separates RD from UD. The UD cell of the second "Dismissals on record" row (the one indented under "After review of regional directors' decision", with 9 / 9 / 7 / 1 / 1) is blank in the image, while the "Elections directed" row just above it prints 0 in UD; the parent row "After review of regional directors' decision" prints 0 in UD, so the blank is most likely an omitted 0, but it is transcribed as empty because nothing is printed there. This scan's 5 and 6 glyphs are easily confused; every value was cross-checked against the printed totals and all additions balance (e.g. 2,455 + 246 = 2,701; 1,581 + 199 = 1,780; 330 + 205 = 535; 529 + 22 + 7 = 558), so the readings 2,455 / 1,581 / 558 / 512 / 529 / 205 / 95 are confirmed rather than guessed. No arithmetic discrepancies were found anywhere in the table. The footnote marker 1 appears on the caption line ("Fiscal Year 1971 1"), which is excluded; the footnote text itself is printed below the table and is retained. Row labels retain their printed wording, including the singular "report" in "No exceptions to regional directors' report" versus the plural "reports" in the row below. Typographic apostrophes are rendered as plain apostrophes.
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.