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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1973
| 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 | 103 | 56 | 54.4 | 47 | 45.6 | 4,641 | 1,791 | 38.6 | 2,850 | 61.4 | 3,787 | 81.6 | 1,537 | 40.6 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 63 | 34 | 54.0 | 29 | 46.0 | 3,178 | 1,061 | 33.4 | 2,117 | 66.6 | 2,559 | 80.5 | 874 | 34.2 |
| Teamsters | 27 | 16 | 59.3 | 11 | 40.7 | 817 | 344 | 42.1 | 473 | 57.9 | 701 | 85.8 | 300 | 42.8 |
| Other national unions | 4 | 1 | 25.0 | 3 | 75.0 | 396 | 198 | 50.0 | 198 | 50.0 | 301 | 76.0 | 193 | 64.1 |
| Other local unions | 9 | 5 | 55.6 | 4 | 44.4 | 250 | 188 | 75.2 | 62 | 24.8 | 226 | 90.4 | 170 | 75.2 |
- 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.
40 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 243. 15 columns: stub + 5 under "Number of polls" + 5 under "Employees involved" + 4 under "Valid votes cast". Decimal points in the percent columns: the scan drops most of them, so many percent cells image as e.g. "45 6", "38 6", "54 0" with a gap where the point belongs. Two cells ("54.4" in Total/Number of polls–Resulting in deauthorization–Percent of total, and "80.5" in AFL-CIO/Valid votes cast–Percent of total eligible) retain a legible point, confirming the column is set to one decimal place. I have therefore written every percent cell with a decimal point. No digits were altered. The one cell that images oddly is Other local unions, Employees involved–In polls–Resulting in continued authorization–Percent of total, which prints as "24 8." with a stray mark trailing the 8; read as 24.8 (62/250), consistent with 75.2 in the paired column. All printed figures reconcile, which supports the digit reading and the column assignment: poll columns 56+47=103 and the four affiliation rows sum to 103, 56 and 47; employee columns 1,791+2,850=4,641 and the affiliation rows sum to 4,641, 1,791 and 2,850; valid votes 2,559+701+301+226=3,787 and 874+300+193+170=1,537. One oddity worth flagging, transcribed as printed and not corrected: the last column is headed "Percent of total eligible", but its values are the deauthorization votes as a percent of valid votes cast, not of total eligible (1,537/3,787=40.6, whereas 1,537/4,641=33.1). The same holds in each affiliation row. The preceding "Percent of total eligible" column under "Valid votes cast" does use total eligible (3,787/4,641=81.6). "AFL-CIO unions" is printed with an en dash between AFL and CIO; transcribed with a plain hyphen. The footnote marker is a raised 1 on the "Employees involved (number eligible to vote)" spanner heading. In the footnote text, "Sec" is followed by a wide space where a period would sit; the scan loses small points elsewhere, so I have rendered it "Sec." — the period itself is not legible in this image. Minor scan artifacts, not content: a stray tick above "38 6" in the Total row, and a clipped glyph at the extreme right edge of the crop beyond the table rule.
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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.