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Representation Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1972

printed as Table 1B · source page 237 · nlrb1972_p0237_t0

TotalsIdentification of filing party
TotalsAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsIndividualsEmployers
RC cases
Pending July 1, 19712,5221,5186491901569
Received fiscal 197211,6666,5093,75075063018
On docket fiscal 197214,1888,0274,39994978627
Closed fiscal 197211,3596,3443,62976559823
Pending June 30, 19722,8291,6837701841884
RM cases
Pending July 1, 1971230230
Received fiscal 1972965965
On docket fiscal 19721,1951,195
Closed fiscal 19721,0241,024
Pending June 30, 1972171171
RD cases
Pending July 1, 19711750000175
Received fiscal 19721,08054021,069
On docket fiscal 19721,25554021,244
Closed fiscal 19721,05542021,047
Pending June 30, 19722001200197

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  1. 1 See "Glossary" for definitions of terms.

60 of 61 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 2 cells break a sum: 'Received fiscal 1972', column 2: prints 11,666, columns 3 to 8 add to 11,657; 'On docket fiscal 1972', column 5: prints 949, rows 'Pending July 1, 1971' to 'Received fiscal 1972' add to 940.

Reader’s notes

p. 237. Single-panel table, 8 columns: stub, Totals, and the six "Identification of filing party" columns. The stub has no printed heading; "Totals" spans both heading levels. "RC cases", "RM cases" and "RD cases" are centred band headings that span the table width and carry no values; they are given as label-only rows. In the RM band all six filing-party columns except Employers are dash rules (""), and in the RC and RD bands the Employers column is a dash rule (""). DOUBTFUL CELL: row "Received fiscal 1972" in the RC band, column "Other national unions". I read the printed glyphs as 750 and have transcribed them as such, but the arithmetic points to 759 from two independent directions: (a) the row would then sum to the printed total, 6,509 + 3,750 + 759 + 630 + 18 = 11,666 (with 750 it sums to 11,657); (b) the column requires 190 + 759 = 949, the printed "On docket fiscal 1972" figure (with 750 it gives 940). The final digit is small and the loop may be filled in this scan, so a printed 9 misread as 0 is plausible; the alternative is an error in the original printing. The cell should be re-checked against a higher-resolution image before use. Note also that the adjacent Teamsters cell in the same row is clearly 3,750, which may have biased my reading of this cell. Every other value reconciles: in all three bands each row sums across the filing-party columns to the printed Totals figure, Pending July 1, 1971 + Received = On docket, and On docket - Closed = Pending June 30, 1972. The caption ("Table 1B.-Representation Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1972 1", which carries footnote marker 1) has been omitted as instructed; the footnote text itself is retained.

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Source page 237 of NLRB FY1972 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1972, p. 237.

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.