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Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1974
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Formal actions taken by type of case | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Total formal actions taken | RC | RM | RD | UD |
| Hearings completed, total | 2,781 | 2,518 | 2,269 | 104 | 145 | 11 |
| Initial hearings | 2,502 | 2,253 | 2,019 | 94 | 140 | 9 |
| Hearings on objections and/or challenges | 279 | 265 | 250 | 10 | 5 | 2 |
| Decisions issued, total | 2,422 | 2,259 | 2,034 | 84 | 141 | 3 |
| By regional directors | 2,242 | 2,103 | 1,899 | 73 | 131 | 3 |
| Elections directed | 1,947 | 1,825 | 1,646 | 62 | 117 | 3 |
| Dismissals on record | 295 | 278 | 253 | 11 | 14 | 0 |
| By Board | 180 | 156 | 135 | 11 | 10 | 0 |
| After transfer by regional directors for initial decision | 126 | 112 | 92 | 11 | 9 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 71 | 65 | 54 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 55 | 47 | 38 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
| After review of regional directors' decisions | 54 | 44 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 30 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 24 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total | 1,240 | 1,202 | 1,098 | 67 | 37 | 9 |
| By regional directors | 340 | 327 | 305 | 15 | 7 | 5 |
| By Board | 900 | 875 | 793 | 52 | 30 | 4 |
| In stipulated elections | 844 | 822 | 748 | 47 | 27 | 3 |
| No exceptions to regional directors' reports | 600 | 584 | 539 | 26 | 19 | 3 |
| Exceptions to regional directors' reports | 244 | 238 | 209 | 21 | 8 | 0 |
| In directed elections (after transfer by regional directors) | 41 | 38 | 33 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| In directed elections after review of regional directors' supplemental decisions | 15 | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | |
- 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms
118 of 118 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 213. Seven columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", then four columns of case type (Total formal actions taken, RC, RM, RD) plus UD under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case". The UD column is separated from RD by a double rule. Last row ("In directed elections after review of regional directors' supplemental decisions"), UD column: no digit is legible; the cell carries only a small comma- or apostrophe-shaped speck near the top. Transcribed as empty. Arithmetically a 0 would be expected there (the three "By Board" subrows under decisions on objections give UD 3 + 1 + ? against a By Board UD total of 4), but nothing printed is readable, so nothing was supplied. Column arithmetic, as printed: "Total formal actions taken" equals RC + RM + RD and excludes UD in every row (e.g. "Hearings completed, total": 2,269 + 104 + 145 = 2,518, with UD 11 not added; "Decisions issued, total": 2,034 + 84 + 141 = 2,259, with UD 3 not added). This is consistent throughout and is not a misprint, but a reader summing across the row will not reach the printed total. All vertical subtotals check out (2,502 + 279 = 2,781; 2,242 + 180 = 2,422; 340 + 900 = 1,240; 844 + 41 + 15 = 900; 600 + 244 = 844). The scan shows a stray ink squiggle in the upper part of the stub heading cell, above "Types of formal actions taken"; it is an artifact, not text.
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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.