NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1972 › Disposition by Stage of Unfair Labor Practice Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1972
Disposition by Stage of Unfair Labor Practice Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1972
| Stage of disposition | All C cases | CA cases | CB cases | CC cases | CD cases | CE cases | CP cases | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage of disposition | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed | Number of cases | Percent of cases closed |
| Total number of cases closed | 25,555 | 100.0 | 16,725 | 100.0 | 5,747 | 100.0 | 1,928 | 100.0 | 630 | 100.0 | 79 | 100.0 | 446 | 100.0 |
| Before issuance of complaint | 22,217 | 86.9 | 14,270 | 85.3 | 5,262 | 91.6 | 1,640 | 85.0 | 598 | 94.9 | 57 | 72.2 | 390 | 87.4 |
| After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing | 1,737 | 6.8 | 1,242 | 7.4 | 248 | 4.3 | 199 | 10.3 | 11 | 1.7 | 6 | 7.6 | 31 | 7.0 |
| After hearing opened, before issuance of trial examiner's decision | 146 | 0.6 | 107 | 0.6 | 27 | 0.5 | 7 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 1.2 | 3 | 0.7 |
| After Trial Examiner's Decision, before issuance of Board decision | 13 | 0.0 | 10 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| After Board order adopting Trial Examiner's Decision in absence of exceptions | 225 | 0.9 | 179 | 1.1 | 34 | 0.6 | 8 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 1 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.4 |
| After Board decision, before circuit court decree | 711 | 2.8 | 521 | 3.1 | 107 | 1.8 | 40 | 2.1 | 16 | 2.5 | 12 | 15.2 | 15 | 3.4 |
| After circuit court decree, before Supreme Court action | 461 | 1.8 | 354 | 2.1 | 65 | 1.2 | 32 | 1.7 | 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 2.6 | 5 | 1.1 |
| After Supreme Court action | 45 | 0.2 | 42 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
- 1 See "Glossary" for definitions of terms.
57 of 57 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 252. 15 columns: stub plus 7 case-type panels (All C, CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CP), each with a "Number of cases" and a "Percent of cases closed" column. The stub heading "Stage of disposition" spans both heading levels and is repeated in each. Faint decimal points: in this 1-bit scan the decimal point drops out of several percent cells, which print as a bare space (e.g. "100 0" for CD in the total row; "87 4" for CP in "Before issuance of complaint"; "0 5" for CB and "1 1" for CA; "3 4" for CP in "After Board decision"; "0 0" for CC in "After Trial Examiner's Decision" and for CB and CC in "After Supreme Court action"). Every value in these columns is printed to one decimal place and each of the affected cells is consistent with its own number/base ratio, so I transcribed them with the decimal point restored. Percent cells that print as a dash rule ("--------") are given as "": the CD, CE and CP percent columns in the "After Trial Examiner's Decision, before issuance of Board decision" and "After Supreme Court action" rows, where the count is 0. Digit readings verified by cross-footing: each row's CA+CB+CC+CD+CE+CP counts sum exactly to its "All C cases" count (e.g. 14,270+5,262+1,640+598+57+390 = 22,217), and the eight stage rows sum to the printed total of 25,555 in the All C column. This resolves two glyphs that are ambiguous in the scan: CB "5,747" (not 6,747) in the total row and All C "45" (not 46) in "After Supreme Court action". No printed value appears to be in error. Minor scan artifacts that are not part of the data: a stray tick after the CC percent "100.0" in the total row, and small specks in the CD/CE columns of the "After Trial Examiner's Decision" row. The caption carries footnote marker 1, recorded with the caption elsewhere.
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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.