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Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1972
| 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 |
| Hearings completed, total | 2,722 | 2,526 | 2,269 | 104 | 153 | 4 |
| Initial hearings | 2,472 | 2,287 | 2,054 | 91 | 142 | 3 |
| Hearings on objections and/or challenges | 250 | 239 | 215 | 13 | 11 | 1 |
| Decisions issued, total | 2,404 | 2,220 | 1,998 | 96 | 126 | 3 |
| By regional directors | 2,169 | 2,054 | 1,850 | 90 | 114 | 3 |
| Elections directed | 1,959 | 1,854 | 1,672 | 80 | 102 | 2 |
| Dismissals on record | 210 | 200 | 178 | 10 | 12 | 1 |
| By Board | 235 | 166 | 148 | 6 | 12 | 0 |
| After transfer by regional directors for initial decision | 190 | 126 | 112 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 143 | 84 | 76 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 47 | 42 | 36 | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| After review of regional directors' decision | 45 | 40 | 36 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 38 | 35 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total | 1,170 | 1,141 | 1,048 | 56 | 37 | 6 |
| By regional directors | 355 | 349 | 313 | 21 | 15 | 5 |
| By Board | 815 | 792 | 735 | 35 | 22 | 1 |
| In stipulated elections | 762 | 740 | 687 | 32 | 21 | 1 |
| No exceptions to regional directors' reports | 549 | 528 | 484 | 25 | 19 | 0 |
| Exceptions to regional directors' reports | 213 | 212 | 203 | 7 | 2 | 1 |
| In directed elections (after transfer by regional directors) | 36 | 36 | 33 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| In directed elections after review of regional directors' supplemental decisions | 17 | 17 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
- 1 See "Glossary" for definitions of terms
118 of 120 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 240. Seven columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", then five columns under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" (Total formal actions taken, RC, RM, RD, UD). The stub heading and the "Cases in which formal actions taken" heading each span both heading levels and are repeated accordingly. Arithmetic check: in every row the printed "Total formal actions taken" equals RC + RM + RD only, i.e. the UD column is excluded from that total (e.g. first row 2,269 + 104 + 153 = 2,526, with UD 4 outside). This is consistent throughout and is how the table is printed, not a transcription error. Apparent misprint in the source: the three sub-rows of the second "By Board" row ("In stipulated elections" 740/687, "In directed elections (after transfer...)" 36/33, "In directed elections after review..." 17/16) sum to 793 in the Total column and 736 in RC, but the "By Board" line is printed as 792 and 735. All other column and row sums in the table reconcile exactly. Values transcribed as printed. The table is otherwise clean; no cells were illegible and nothing appears cut off by the crop. The footnote marker 1 belongs to the caption (omitted per instructions); the footnote text itself is given above and shows no terminal period in the scan.
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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.