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Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1973

printed as Table 1 · source page 216 · nlrb1973_p0216_t0

	Total	Identification of Filing Party
	Total	AFL-CIO unions	Teamsters	Other national unions	Other local unions	Individuals	Employers
All cases
Pending July 1, 1972	12,797	5,424	1,508	519	501	3,435	1,410
Received fiscal 1973	41,077	14,845	6,015	1,181	1,162	13,299	5,075
On docket fiscal 1973	53,874	19,769	7,523	1,700	1,663	16,734	6,485
Closed fiscal 1973	41,566	14,681	6,073	1,320	1,308	13,290	4,894
Pending June 30, 1973	12,308	5,088	1,450	380	355	3,444	1,591
Unfair labor practice cases
Pending July 1, 1972	9,503	3,706	730	331	310	3,202	1,224
Received fiscal 1973	26,487	7,374	2,096	591	540	11,908	3,978
On docket fiscal 1973	35,990	11,080	2,826	922	850	15,110	5,202
Closed fiscal 1973	26,989	7,780	2,105	674	655	11,934	3,841
Pending June 30, 1973	9,001	3,300	721	248	195	3,176	1,361
Representation cases
Pending July 1, 1972	3,200	1,684	772	184	188	201	171
Received fiscal 1973	14,032	6,808	3,889	568	606	1,170	991
On docket fiscal 1973	17,232	8,492	4,661	752	794	1,371	1,162
Closed fiscal 1973	14,059	6,733	3,944	628	639	1,144	971
Pending June 30, 1973	3,173	1,759	717	124	155	227	191
Union-shop Deauthorization cases
Pending July 1, 1972	30					30
Received fiscal 1973	213					213
On docket fiscal 1973	243					243
Closed fiscal 1973	202					202
Pending June 30, 1973	41					41
Amendment of certification cases
Pending July 1, 1972	14	7	2	3	1	1	0
Received fiscal 1973	78	39	14	13	6	0	6
On docket fiscal 1973	92	46	16	16	7	1	6
Closed fiscal 1973	66	38	6	11	4	1	6
Pending June 30, 1973	26	8	10	5	3	0	0
Unit clarification cases
Pending July 1, 1972	50	27	4	1	2	1	15
Received fiscal 1973	267	124	16	9	10	8	100
On docket fiscal 1973	317	151	20	10	12	9	115
Closed fiscal 1973	250	130	18	7	10	9	76
Pending June 30, 1973	67	21	2	3	2	0	39

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1 See Glossary for definitions of terms. Advisory opinion (AO) cases not included See table 22.
2 See table 1A for totals by types of cases
3 See table 1B for totals by types of cases

179 of 180 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 2 cells break a sum: 'Received fiscal 1973', column 2: prints 41,077, columns 3 to 8 add to 41,577; 'On docket fiscal 1973', column 3: prints 19,769, rows 'Pending July 1, 1972' to 'Received fiscal 1973' add to 20,269.

Reader’s notes

p. 216. Eight columns: stub, Total, and six "Identification of Filing Party" columns. The stub heading is blank; "Total" is a tall heading spanning both heading levels. "AFL-CIO unions" is printed over three lines ("AFL- CIO unions"); the hyphen is part of the name, not a line-break hyphen. Doubtful cell: "All cases" / "Received fiscal 1973" / AFL-CIO unions. I read the glyph as 14,845, but every arithmetic check says the printed figure should be 14,345: on docket 19,769 minus pending 5,424 = 14,345, the AFL-CIO section receipts (7,374 + 6,808 + 0 + 39 + 124) sum to 14,345, and the row only adds to the printed total 41,077 with 14,345 (with 14,845 it sums to 41,577). I transcribed what I see rather than the reconciled value; treat this cell as either a misprint in the original or a 3/8 glyph I could not resolve at this resolution. Every other cell in the table reconciles: each row sums across to its Total column, each section's figures sum to the "All cases" block, and pending + received = on docket, on docket - closed = pending June 30 throughout. In the "Union-shop Deauthorization cases" block the six filing-party columns other than Individuals hold dash rules, transcribed as "".

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Source page 216 of NLRB FY1973 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 216.

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.