NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1971 › Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1971
Stitched from pp. 198–200.
| 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 | Eligible 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 | Eligible employees in units choosing representation |
| Ordance and accessories | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 960 | 874 | 313 | 313 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 561 | 356 |
| Food and kindred products | 578 | 334 | 169 | 133 | 17 | 15 | 244 | 40,428 | 35,441 | 21,401 | 12,820 | 5,774 | 1,223 | 1,584 | 14,040 | 22,533 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1,073 | 744 | 613 | 425 | 99 | 0 | 89 | 131 | 1,063 |
| Textile mill products | 71 | 36 | 24 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 35 | 10,584 | 9,357 | 4,545 | 3,502 | 475 | 354 | 214 | 4,812 | 5,083 |
| Apparel an other finished products made from fabric and similar materials | 95 | 40 | 29 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 55 | 11,922 | 10,681 | 4,707 | 4,122 | 296 | 239 | 50 | 5,974 | 8,474 |
| Lumber and wood products (except furniture) | 140 | 69 | 48 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 71 | 21,480 | 19,442 | 9,034 | 8,175 | 541 | 162 | 156 | 10,408 | 4,937 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 107 | 49 | 27 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 58 | 9,832 | 8,824 | 4,755 | 3,113 | 1,091 | 478 | 73 | 4,069 | 4,740 |
| Paper and allied products | 167 | 88 | 50 | 25 | 9 | 4 | 79 | 19,448 | 17,653 | 10,646 | 5,828 | 2,080 | 787 | 1,951 | 7,007 | 8,694 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied industries | 290 | 150 | 110 | 25 | 6 | 9 | 140 | 11,253 | 10,285 | 5,323 | 3,877 | 824 | 247 | 375 | 4,962 | 5,121 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 297 | 151 | 56 | 63 | 26 | 6 | 146 | 24,882 | 22,834 | 12,545 | 6,562 | 2,041 | 2,205 | 1,737 | 10,289 | 11,038 |
| Products of petroleum and coal | 85 | 55 | 32 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 5,291 | 4,817 | 3,623 | 1,836 | 689 | 138 | 960 | 1,194 | 3,980 |
| Rubber and miscellaneous plastics products | 213 | 104 | 59 | 23 | 19 | 3 | 109 | 21,754 | 19,531 | 9,270 | 6,071 | 1,037 | 1,542 | 620 | 10,261 | 7,602 |
| Leather and leather products | 47 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 11,473 | 10,394 | 4,740 | 3,723 | 26 | 304 | 687 | 5,654 | 3,146 |
| Stone, clay, and glass products | 208 | 114 | 67 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 94 | 9,328 | 8,513 | 4,460 | 3,297 | 758 | 216 | 189 | 4,053 | 3,891 |
| Primary metal industries | 267 | 153 | 96 | 34 | 19 | 4 | 114 | 22,361 | 20,351 | 10,625 | 6,816 | 915 | 2,400 | 494 | 9,726 | 9,244 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 443 | 253 | 157 | 50 | 36 | 10 | 190 | 27,924 | 25,240 | 14,181 | 8,649 | 2,044 | 2,774 | 714 | 11,059 | 14,138 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 517 | 258 | 152 | 46 | 54 | 6 | 259 | 49,837 | 45,505 | 26,935 | 12,686 | 1,870 | 9,443 | 2,936 | 18,570 | 24,307 |
| Electrical machinery, equipment, and supplies | 254 | 102 | 63 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 152 | 34,609 | 31,340 | 14,656 | 10,353 | 1,336 | 2,251 | 716 | 16,684 | 9,073 |
| Aircraft and parts | 45 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 7,403 | 6,768 | 2,983 | 1,778 | 99 | 848 | 258 | 3,785 | 2,040 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 25 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 10,658 | 9,752 | 3,574 | 2,632 | 914 | 28 | 0 | 6,178 | 2,039 |
| Miscellaneous transportation equipment | 248 | 131 | 48 | 28 | 50 | 5 | 117 | 24,182 | 21,922 | 12,562 | 3,873 | 1,546 | 4,598 | 2,545 | 9,360 | 13,858 |
| Professional, scientific, and controlling instruments | 46 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 4,607 | 4,339 | 2,063 | 1,419 | 351 | 291 | 2 | 2,276 | 1,320 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing | 170 | 81 | 37 | 28 | 9 | 7 | 89 | 10,971 | 9,823 | 4,372 | 2,334 | 1,144 | 733 | 161 | 5,451 | 2,935 |
| Manufacturing | 4,324 | 2,236 | 1,268 | 566 | 301 | 101 | 2,088 | 392,260 | 354,430 | 187,926 | 114,204 | 25,950 | 31,261 | 16,511 | 166,504 | 164,612 |
| Metal mining | 8 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1,639 | 1,412 | 1,279 | 700 | 20 | 3 | 556 | 133 | 1,562 |
| Coal mining | 27 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 1,236 | 1,089 | 578 | 58 | 0 | 366 | 154 | 511 | 476 |
| Crude petroleum and natural gas production | 15 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 501 | 422 | 174 | 157 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 248 | 100 |
| Nonmetallic mining and quarrying | 18 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 632 | 573 | 367 | 186 | 37 | 144 | 0 | 206 | 443 |
| Mining | 68 | 36 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 32 | 4,008 | 3,496 | 2,398 | 1,101 | 74 | 513 | 710 | 1,098 | 2,581 |
| Construction | 188 | 123 | 87 | 18 | 10 | 8 | 65 | 6,810 | 5,541 | 3,775 | 2,905 | 358 | 184 | 328 | 1,766 | 4,391 |
| Wholesale trade | 730 | 396 | 75 | 281 | 28 | 12 | 334 | 17,896 | 16,297 | 8,474 | 2,950 | 4,652 | 451 | 421 | 7,823 | 8,740 |
| Retail trade | 1,239 | 645 | 439 | 153 | 17 | 36 | 594 | 50,945 | 41,913 | 21,912 | 16,066 | 3,933 | 553 | 1,360 | 20,001 | 23,785 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 90 | 45 | 36 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 45 | 9,537 | 7,945 | 4,304 | 1,966 | 260 | 56 | 2,022 | 3,641 | 4,451 |
| Local passenger transportation | 45 | 30 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 2,571 | 1,990 | 1,400 | 553 | 378 | 9 | 460 | 590 | 1,990 |
| Motor freight, warehousing, and transportation services | 471 | 237 | 35 | 190 | 6 | 6 | 234 | 12,979 | 11,373 | 5,508 | 1,245 | 3,875 | 77 | 311 | 5,865 | 4,665 |
| Water transportation | 28 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 1,872 | 1,426 | 519 | 398 | 29 | 64 | 28 | 907 | 410 |
| Other transportation | 25 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1,623 | 1,466 | 674 | 242 | 421 | 11 | 0 | 792 | 804 |
| Communications | 155 | 94 | 82 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 61 | 33,846 | 26,037 | 24,560 | 16,134 | 296 | 14 | 8,116 | 1,477 | 31,922 |
| Heat, light, power, water, and sanitary services | 124 | 79 | 59 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 5,337 | 4,931 | 2,925 | 2,047 | 208 | 264 | 406 | 2,006 | 2,899 |
| Transportation, communication, and other utilities | 848 | 467 | 203 | 231 | 14 | 19 | 381 | 58,228 | 47,223 | 35,586 | 20,619 | 5,207 | 439 | 9,321 | 11,637 | 42,690 |
| Hotels and other lodging places | 94 | 43 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 51 | 5,593 | 4,329 | 1,916 | 1,419 | 152 | 116 | 229 | 2,413 | 2,212 |
| Personal services | 69 | 31 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 38 | 2,922 | 2,565 | 1,190 | 687 | 371 | 56 | 76 | 1,375 | 944 |
| Automobile repairs, garages, and other miscellaneous repair services | 133 | 77 | 28 | 43 | 6 | 0 | 56 | 2,577 | 2,272 | 1,207 | 416 | 706 | 71 | 14 | 1,065 | 1,241 |
| Motion pictures and other amusement and recreation services | 28 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 2,486 | 1,670 | 1,122 | 266 | 94 | 17 | 745 | 548 | 1,698 |
| Medical and other health services | 225 | 151 | 133 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 74 | 13,365 | 10,708 | 6,501 | 5,613 | 104 | 105 | 679 | 4,207 | 8,669 |
| Educational services | 34 | 19 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 7,147 | 5,595 | 2,104 | 764 | 218 | 76 | 1,046 | 3,491 | 1,823 |
| Nonprofit membership organizations | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 519 | 460 | 223 | 130 | 2 | 0 | 91 | 237 | 296 |
| Miscellaneous services | 283 | 153 | 101 | 23 | 22 | 7 | 130 | 11,862 | 9,840 | 5,201 | 3,500 | 482 | 627 | 592 | 4,639 | 6,567 |
| Services | 875 | 497 | 331 | 93 | 34 | 39 | 378 | 46,471 | 37,439 | 19,464 | 12,795 | 2,129 | 1,068 | 3,472 | 17,975 | 23,450 |
| Total, all industrial groups | 8,362 | 4,445 | 2,453 | 1,349 | 418 | 225 | 3,917 | 586,155 | 514,284 | 283,839 | 172,606 | 42,563 | 34,525 | 34,145 | 230,445 | 274,700 |
746 of 769 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Manufacturing', column 17: prints 164,612, rows 'Ordance and accessor' to 'Miscellaneous manufa' add to 169,612.
p. 198. The crop cuts the table off after the "Primary metal industries" row; the table continues on the page below the crop, so later industry rows and any total line are not shown. The stub heading carries a raised footnote marker 1 ("Industrial group ^1"), but the footnote text itself falls below the crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Two row labels are transcribed exactly as printed and appear to be typographic defects in the original: row 1 reads "Ordance and accessories" (the standard SIC wording is "Ordnance and accessories" — the "n" is absent/broken in this impression), and row 5 reads "Apparel an other finished products made from fabric and similar materials" (the "d" of "and" is absent/broken). Column placement was cross-checked by arithmetic on all 15 rows and every row is internally consistent: the AFL-CIO/Teamsters/other-national/other-local election counts sum to the "Total" won by unions; that total plus "no representative was chosen" equals "Total elections"; the four union vote columns sum to "Valid votes cast for unions: Total"; and that total plus "Total votes for no union" equals "Total valid votes cast". No printed value appeared to be a misprint. A vertical running head "Appendix A" is printed in the right margin outside the table rules and is excluded, as are the caption lines.
p. 199. This is a continuation page ("—Continued") of Table 16; the industrial-group list begins on an earlier page, so the "Manufacturing" and "Mining" lines here are subtotals that also cover rows printed before this crop (the eight manufacturing detail rows shown above "Manufacturing" are only the tail of that group, so "Manufacturing" is much larger than their sum, as expected). The stub heading carries a raised footnote marker ("Industrial group ^1"), but no footnote text is printed on this page; the footnote presumably appears on the table's first page. The table is cut off at the bottom after "Construction" — further industry groups continue on the next page. Printed arithmetic is internally consistent throughout: in every row the union-detail columns sum to their "Total" column, "Total elections" equals won-by-unions plus no-representative-chosen, "Total valid votes cast" equals union votes plus votes for no union, and the "Mining" line equals the sum of its four member rows. Minor reading notes: in the "Coal mining" row the "Total" won-by-unions value is printed with a stray leading mark (reads 15), and the "Miscellaneous transportation equipment" row has a stray ink speck before the "Total elections" value and before "48" in the AFL-CIO column; neither is a footnote marker.
p. 200. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 columns (stub plus 16 numeric), counted from the column rules and confirmed by the data. Arithmetic cross-checks all pass, which strongly corroborates the column assignment: in every data row, columns 3-7 sum to column 1 (e.g. Wholesale trade 75+281+28+12+334 = 730; Communications 82+4+1+7+61 = 155). The two subtotal rows reconcile exactly in all 16 numeric columns against their member rows printed above them — "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" against the six transportation/utility rows, and "Services" against the eight service rows. The "Total, all industrial groups" row satisfies the same cols 3-7 = col 1 identity (2,453+1,349+418+225+3,917 = 8,362), but its remaining columns cannot be checked here because they also aggregate rows printed on the preceding page. The first three rows (Wholesale trade, Retail trade, Finance insurance and real estate) belong to sections whose subtotal rows fall on the preceding page, so they are validated only by the cols 3-7 = col 1 identity, which holds for each. Doubtful/incidental marks: in Retail trade, column 9 ("41,913") there is a small stray tick immediately to the right of the value, against the column rule; it reads as a scan artifact rather than a footnote marker, and the value is transcribed as 41,913. In Nonprofit membership organizations, column 7 ("3") a small speck sits just above the digit; again read as an artifact, and the sum check (5+0+0+1+3 = 9) confirms the value is 3. In Communications, column 4 ("4") a faint vertical tick appears to the right of the digit, likewise read as an artifact. No footnote markers are attached to any value or row label on this image. The single footnote rule and source note at the foot of the page are reproduced in footnotes. Several row labels were printed broken across two or three lines and have been joined, repairing end-of-line hyphens: "commu-nication" to "communication", "orga-nizations" to "organizations".
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.