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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1974
| 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 | 118 | 69 | 58.5 | 49 | 41.5 | 9,345 | 6,261 | 67.0 | 3,084 | 33.0 | 6,795 | 72.7 | 4,698 | 50.3 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 67 | 37 | 55.2 | 30 | 44.8 | 5,196 | 3,129 | 60.2 | 2,067 | 39.8 | 3,855 | 74.2 | 2,364 | 45.5 |
| Teamsters | 40 | 25 | 62.5 | 15 | 37.5 | 1,609 | 947 | 58.9 | 662 | 41.1 | 1,191 | 74.0 | 844 | 52.5 |
| Other national unions | 3 | 1 | 33.3 | 2 | 66.7 | 380 | 256 | 67.4 | 124 | 32.6 | 300 | 78.9 | 189 | 49.7 |
| Other local unions | 8 | 6 | 75.0 | 2 | 25.0 | 2,160 | 1,929 | 89.3 | 231 | 10.7 | 1,449 | 67.1 | 1,301 | 60.2 |
- 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. 234. The scan renders decimal points in the percent columns as blank space (e.g. "58 5", "67 0"); these are decimal points in the original typesetting and are transcribed as such. Arithmetic confirms this reading throughout: each percent equals the adjacent count divided by the panel total (e.g. 69/118 = 58.5, 6,261/9,345 = 67.0, 1,301/2,160 = 60.2). The four detail rows also sum exactly to every printed figure in the Total row (67+40+3+8 = 118; 5,196+1,609+380+2,160 = 9,345; 2,364+844+189+1,301 = 4,698), so no misprints are apparent. The footnote's abbreviation is printed "Sec 8(a)(3)" with the period after "Sec" lost to the scan; likewise the trailing period of the footnote sentence is not visible. The heading footnote marker is a raised 1 at the end of "Employees involved (number eligible to vote)". Scan quality is poor enough that the letters "ri"/"rı" and "ti"/"tı" lose their dots in several headings (e.g. "Resulting in", "authorization"), but the words themselves are unambiguous. A faint mark appears in the right margin beside the header band, outside the table's rightmost rule; it is not a data cell. Column 12 ("Percent of total eligible" under Valid votes cast) carries a small stray tick in the header area of the scan, not a value.
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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.