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Valid Votes Cast in Representation Elections, by Final Results of Election, in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1973

printed as Table 14 · source pages 248–251 · nlrb1973_p0248_t0

Stitched from pp. 248–251.

Participating unionsTotal valid votes castValid votes cast in elections wonValid votes cast in election lost
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castVotes for unionsTotal votes for no unionVotes for unionsTotal votes for no union
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no union
A. All representation elections
AFL-CIO276,42970,22770,22735,92158,99958,999111,282
Teamsters82,95521,00021,0009,66716,98416,98435,304
Other national unions39,1669,0169,0164,5989,1869,18616,366
Other local unions15,2335,2895,2891,8072,6872,6875,450
1-union elections413,783105,53270,22721,0009,0165,28951,99387,85658,99916,9849,1862,687168,402
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO13,3275,3975,3971,3012,5312,5314,098
AFL-CIO v Teamsters19,34611,0995,5955,5041,0442,7539841,7694,450
AFL-CIO v. national6,2983,9601,2562,7042936271614661,418
AFL-CIO v local13,69511,5706,6604,9103327742165581,019
Teamsters v national1,007528189339261373899316
Teamsters v. local2,2582,1041,0971,007454237567
Teamsters v. Teamsters1711661665000
National v local2,1551,8728551,0172387789173
National v national62760960918000
Local v. local1,1771,1171,11760000
2-union elections60,06138,42218,9086,9564,5078,0513,1476,9513,8921,84464357211,541
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO474236236118686141
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters1,4281,1625685941654545056
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local929719455264863838086
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v Teamsters342781903034
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v national1,1667363922261189209019514212
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local67767336448189400000
AFL-CIO v national v. national186185151700000
AFL-CIO v national v local252111100611210840123
AFL-CIO v. local v local2252245716710000
Teamsters v local v local949423710000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO112000525260
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local8578371494422462000000
Teamsters v. Teamsters v. Teamsters2522223000
3 (or more)-union elections6,4594,9261,9271,774288937306545329198180682
Total representation elections480,303148,88091,06229,73013,81114,27755,44695,35263,22019,0269,8473,259180,625
B. Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO259,80465,38365,38333,86156,08156,081104,479
Teamsters77,68119,89919,8999,15915,98615,98632,637
Other national unions37,2228,7468,7464,4628,7898,78915,225
Other local unions14,8935,1715,1711,7702,6432,6435,309
1-union elections389,60099,19965,38319,8998,7465,17149,25283,49956,08115,9868,7892,643157,650
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO12,5684,8004,8001,2682,4852,4854,015
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters17,8389,6635,0544,6099722,7539841,7694,450
AFL-CIO v. national6,2533,9191,2152,7042896271614661,418
AFL-CIO v. local11,1089,0645,1943,870291764206558989
Teamsters v. national69847616331326803248116
Teamsters v. local2,2522,0981,0971,001454237567
Teamsters v. Teamsters1181131135000
National v. local2,1551,8728551,0172387789173
National v. national62760960918000
Local v. local92587887847000
2-union elections54,54233,49216,2635,9824,4816,7662,9846,8383,8361,83859257211,228
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO474236236118686141
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters1,4281,1625685941654545056
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local4112782542493838086
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national1,1667363922261189209019514212
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. local6776733644818940000
AFL-CIO v. national v. national1861851517010000
AFL-CIO v. national v. local2350000011210840123
AFL-CIO v. local v. local2252245716710000
Teamsters v. local v. local9494237100000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO112000525260
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local8578371494422462000000
Teamsters v Teamsters v. Teamsters2522223000
3 (or more)-union elections5,8904,4471,7071,755288697223542329195180678
Total RC elections450,032137,13883,35327,63613,51512,63452,45990,87960,24618,0199,3993,215169,556
C. Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO6,2042,0362,0367459999992,424
Teamsters3,0006126122306216211,537
Other national unions1,01741418225225743
Other local unions227949424292980
1-union elections10,4482,7832,03661241941,0071,874999621225294,784
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO241204204134420
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters118116892720000
AFL-CIO v. national454141040000
AFL-CIO v. local1,7491,6941,079615151010030
Teamsters v. national288312011057651200
2-union elections2,4412,0861,41347116153471146510250
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local26318817018750004
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Teamsters700003030
3 (or more)-union elections270188170001875303004
Total RM elections13,1595,0573,619659527271,1161,9481,013630276295,038
D Elections in RD cases
AFL-CIO10,4212,8082,8081,3121,9191,9194,379
Teamsters2,2744894892783773771,130
Other national unions927229229128172172398
Other local unions113242413151561
1-union elections13,7353,5502,808489229241,7342,4831,919377172155,968
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO51839339320424263
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters1,3901,320452868700000
AFL-CIO v. local838812387425260000
Teamsters v. national212161500000
Teamsters v. local660600000
Teamsters v Teamsters5353530000
Local v. local25223923913000
2-union elections3,0782,8441,23292715670129424200063
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v local2552533122220000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. Teamsters272781900000
AFL-CIO v. national v. local17111100600000
3 (or more)-union elections299291501902228000000
Total RD elections17,1126,6854,0901,4352449161,8712,5251,961377172156,031

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683 of 686 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 7 cells break a sum: 'AFL-CIO v national v. national', column 2: prints 186, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 185; 'AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local', column 2: prints 263, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 267; 'AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Teamst', column 2: prints 7, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 3; 'AFL-CIO', column 2: prints 10,421, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 10,418; 'AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local', column 2: prints 263, rows 'AFL-CIO v. Teamsters' to '3 (or more)-union el' add to 277; '1-union elections', column 8: prints 1,734, rows 'AFL-CIO' to 'Other local unions' add to 1,731; '3 (or more)-union elections', column 8: prints 306, rows 'AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v' to 'Teamsters v. Teamste' add to 305.

Reader’s notes

p. 248. 14 columns: stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" and six under "Valid votes cast in election lost" (the right-hand spanner is printed in the singular, "election lost", as transcribed). Crop is cut off at the bottom: the body ends with "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local". There is no 3-union subtotal row and no panel B on this image, and no footnote text is printed on the crop (the caption carries a raised 1 marker, but the note it points to falls outside the crop), so `footnotes` is empty. Arithmetic check: every row and both printed subtotals foot exactly, with one exception. "AFL-CIO v national v. national" prints 186 in "Total valid votes cast", but its printed components sum to 185 (185 + 0 + 0 + 0); the "Total votes for no union" cell on the won side is printed as a dash rule and is transcribed as "". Either the 186 is a misprint for 185 or a faint "1" sits in that dashed cell. Transcribed as printed. Doubtful glyphs, all resolved by the row arithmetic: "Teamsters v. Teamsters" / "Total valid votes cast" prints a stray comma after the digits ("171,"); transcribed 171 (= 166 + 5). "AFL-CIO v. local v local" / "Total valid votes cast" has a stray dash-like mark before the digits ("-225"); transcribed 225 (= 224 + 1), not a negative number. "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local" has a stray comma mark just left of the 0 in "Other local unions" (election lost); the cell value is 0. Section line: the "A" heading is printed as "A" followed by a wide gap before "All representation elections"; the period after the letter is faint in the scan and has been written as "A. All representation elections". Row labels mix "v" and "v." as the separator; both are kept as printed. "AFL-CIO" is set with an en dash in the scan and is written with a hyphen here. Two labels wrap onto a second printed line and are joined into one row: "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO" and "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local".

p. 249. This page continues Table 14 from the preceding page: the first three rows (ending with "Total representation elections") close panel A, and no footnotes are printed on this portion. The body is cut off by the bottom of the crop after "AFL-CIO v. local v. local"; the rest of the 3-union block of panel B continues on the next page. The scan is coarse 1-bit type in which the digit 3 closes up and reads like an 8 at this resolution. In seven cells the glyph is doubtful and I read it as 3 because the row sum (won total + won no-union + lost total + lost no-union = total valid votes) and the relevant column total both agree: "Total representation elections" / lost "AFL-CIO unions" = 63,220; "Other national unions" / "Total valid votes cast" = 37,222; "Other local unions" / "Total valid votes cast" = 14,893; "Teamsters" / lost "Total votes for no union" = 32,637; "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters" / "Total valid votes cast" = 17,838; "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national" / won "AFL-CIO unions" = 392; "2-union elections" / won "Total" = 33,492. Every other row and every column total in the crop balances as transcribed. The section line prints "B" followed by a wide space before "Elections in RC cases"; the period after B is not legible in the scan and I supplied it. Likewise the period after "v" in "National v. local" is not legible, and in "Teamsters v. local" speckle in the word "local" makes it look like "luocal". Dash rules ("-----" / "----") in the body are rendered as empty cells; printed zeros are kept as 0.

p. 250. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 14 columns (stub + 13 numeric). Column identity was confirmed by arithmetic: col 1 is the overall total, cols 3-6 break down col 2 (AFL-CIO / Teamsters / other national / other local), col 7 is a single figure, cols 9-12 break down col 8 in the same four categories, and col 1 = col 2 + col 7 + col 8 + col 13 in almost every row. The crop opens in the middle of the RC-case section (section B continues from the previous page; its first rows are not on this image) and is cut off at the bottom: section D ends at "Teamsters v Teamsters" and the table continues on the next page. Arithmetic anomalies, transcribed exactly as printed: - Section C, "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local": the row's components (188 + 75 + 0 + 4) give 267, not the printed 263; "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Teamsters": components (0 + 0 + 3 + 0) give 3, not the printed 7. The two printed totals do sum to the subtotal 270, so the "4" in the last column looks as if it was set on the wrong line (it would make both rows balance if it belonged to the second row). - Section D, "AFL-CIO", column 7: I read "1,312" on both passes, but both the row sum (2,808 + x + 1,919 + 4,379 = 10,421) and the column sum against the 1-union subtotal (1,734) require 1,315. The final digit of this cell is doubtful; every other figure in the section reconciles. Minor legibility points: several figures carry stray specks of ink from the scan that are not footnote markers (leading marks before 2,424 and 678, before 29 in the 1-union elections row of section C, before 6 and 51 in "Teamsters v. national", before 0 in "AFL-CIO v. national" col 11 and "AFL-CIO v. local" col 12, and before 3,215 and 169,556 in "Total RC elections"). Broken letterforms were normalized where unambiguous ("l0,448" to 10,448, "2-unıon" to "2-union", "unıons" to "unions"). The section line for RD cases is printed as "D Elections in RD cases" with no period after the D, unlike "C. Elections in RM cases"; both are transcribed as printed. Row labels retain the source's inconsistent punctuation ("v" without a period in "v local", "Teamsters v Teamsters"). All em-dash/leader cells ("-----", "- - -", "-") are rendered as empty strings per the convention; printed zeros are kept as 0.

p. 251. The crop is a "—Continued" page: the body begins mid-table with the data row "Local v. local" and its subtotal "2-union elections", so earlier rows of the 2-union block are on the preceding page. Column headings are printed in full on this page and are transcribed. Layout: 14 columns. "Total valid votes cast" is a tall single heading spanning all three heading levels; each of "Valid votes cast in elections won" and "Valid votes cast in elections lost" spans six columns (the five "Votes for unions" columns plus that section's "Total votes for no union"), and each "Total votes for no union" spans the lower two heading levels. Scan artifacts leave several i's dotless in the headings ("in elections", "unions", "no union"); normalized to the obvious words. "Team- sters" rejoined as "Teamsters"; "AFL–CIO" printed with an en dash is written with a hyphen. Doubtful cells, all in row labels rather than numbers: the periods after the abbreviation "v" are inconsistently legible. Row 3 reads "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v local" (no period visible before "local") and row 4 reads "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. Teamsters" (no period visible after the first "v"); these are likely dropped periods in the scan rather than a real difference from row 5's "AFL-CIO v. national v. local", but they are transcribed as seen. Dash rules are faint in the right-hand "lost" columns of rows 3-5; in row 1 the "Other national unions" (lost) cell is a broken rule ("- - -") rather than a number. In row 4 the "Teamsters" (lost) cell is read as a printed 0 and the "Other national unions"/"Other local unions" (lost) cells as dash rules; the reverse reading would be inconsistent with the "3 (or more)-union elections" subtotal. No arithmetic was altered. As a check only: every row's "Total" won/lost equals its four component union columns, each row's "Total valid votes cast" equals won + no-union-won + lost + no-union-lost, and the "3 (or more)-union elections" subtotal equals the sum of the three detail rows above it, in every column. No misprint detected.

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Source page 248 of NLRB FY1973 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 248.
Source page 249 of NLRB FY1973 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 249.
Source page 250 of NLRB FY1973 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 250.
Source page 251 of NLRB FY1973 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1973, p. 251.

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.