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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1972
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Number of polls | Employees involved (number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total eligible | In polls | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for deauthorization | ||||||
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total eligible | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for deauthorization | |||||
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible |
| Total | 97 | 56 | 57.7 | 41 | 42.3 | 6,158 | 2,799 | 45.5 | 3,359 | 54.5 | 4,536 | 73.7 | 1,602 | 35.3 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 70 | 38 | 54.3 | 32 | 45.7 | 4,571 | 1,945 | 42.6 | 2,626 | 57.4 | 3,423 | 74.9 | 1,091 | 31.9 |
| Teamsters | 21 | 12 | 57.1 | 9 | 42.9 | 1,113 | 380 | 34.1 | 733 | 65.9 | 774 | 68.5 | 223 | 28.8 |
| Other local unions | 6 | 6 | 100.0 | 0 | 474 | 474 | 100.0 | 0 | 339 | 71.5 | 288 | 85.0 | ||
- 1 Sec. 8(a)(3) of the Act requires that to revoke a union-shop agreement, a majority of the employees eligible to vote must vote in favor of deauthorization.
30 of 30 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 259. 15 columns. The table has four heading levels: the stub, "Total" (polls), "Total eligible", "Total" and "Percent of total eligible" (valid votes cast) are tall single headings repeated down the levels; "In polls" and "Cast for deauthorization" sit on the second level over their sub-columns. Doubtful cell: row "Teamsters", column "Valid votes cast / Percent of total eligible" reads 68.5 in the scan, but 774/1,113 = 69.5, and every other row in that column matches its computed value exactly (73.7, 74.9, 71.5). The glyph is an 8 or a 9; I transcribed what I read, 68.5. Nothing was computed or corrected. Row "Other local unions" prints a dash rule (------) in "Number of polls / Resulting in continued authorization / Percent of total" and in "Employees involved / In polls / Resulting in continued authorization / Percent of total"; both are given as "". The last column is headed "Percent of total eligible", but its values are percentages of valid votes cast, not of total eligible (1,602/4,536 = 35.3; 1,602/6,158 = 26.0). Transcribed as printed. Row label "AFL-CIO unions" is printed with an en-dash-like rule between AFL and CIO; written with a hyphen. All column totals and the component sums are internally consistent apart from the Teamsters cell noted above.
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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.