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Size of Units in Representation Election Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 19741 Elections in which representation rights were won by Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the National Labor Relations Board

printed as Table 17 · source pages 249–250 · nlrb1974_p0249_t0

Stitched from pp. 249–250.

Size of unit (number of employees)Number eligible to voteTotal electionsPercent of totalCumulative percent of totalElections in which representation rights were won byElections in which no representative was chosen
Size of unit (number of employees)Number eligible to voteTotal electionsPercent of totalCumulative percent of totalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsElections in which no representative was chosen
Size of unit (number of employees)Number eligible to voteTotal electionsPercent of totalCumulative percent of totalNumberPercent by size classNumberPercent by size classNumberPercent by size classNumberPercent by size classNumberPercent by size class
A. Certification Elections (RC and RM)
Total RC and RM elections519,6348,368100.02,442100.01,340100.0271100.0220100.04,095100.0
Under 1011,7842,10725.225.264826.556142.07025.83616.379219.3
10 to 1925,7831,85422.247.457323.434826.14717.44721.383920.6
20 to 2924,4181,01712.259.631012.615611.73513.03114.048511.8
30 to 3922,0916467.767.31807.4765.8217.7209.03498.5
40 to 4920,3974645.572.81315.4382.8134.8156.82676.5
50 to 5917,0643153.876.6953.9261.941.5135.91774.3
60 to 6916,7642623.179.7773.2302.293.373.21393.4
70 to 7917,4292362.882.5652.7211.6145.262.71303.2
80 to 8914,0771672.084.5562.360.451.852.3952.3
90 to 9912,5201331.686.1321.3100.772.683.6761.9
100 to 10911,6821121.387.4351.460.431.131.4651.6
110 to 11910,639931.188.5251.060.472.652.3501.2
120 to 12910,787871.089.5180.750.441.541.8561.4
130 to 13910,063750.990.4170.770.520.731.4461.1
140 to 1497,635530.691.0170.740.331.10290.7
150 to 1599,042590.791.7160.720.120.720.9370.9
160 to 1696,872420.592.290.460.420.710.5240.6
170 to 1798,705500.692.8110.540.331.131.4290.7
180 to 1897,184390.593.380.350.431.10230.6
190 to 1997,168370.493.770.330.2010.5260.6
200 to 29952,0452162.696.3492.080.683.031.41483.6
300 to 39938,3131111.397.6271.150.420.710.5761.9
400 to 49928,685650.998.5120.520.110.410.5491.2
500 to 59915,145280.398.8100.420.120.70140.3
600 to 79927,219400.599.370.330.2010.5290.7
800 to 99918,630210.399.640.2020.720.9130.3
1,000 to 1,99942,774330.4100.030.1010.420.9270.7
2,000 to 2,9997,07530.0100.00010.4020.0
3,000 to 9,99917,64430.0100.0000030.1
B. Decertification elections (RD)
Total RD elections24,697490100.091100.047100.010100.04100.0338100.0
Under 1067311824.124.111.1510.60125.011132.7
10 to 191,40410020.444.51011.0919.2220.007923.3
20 to 291,9888316.961.41415.41225.6330.005416.0
30 to 391,524449.070.41617.5510.6220.0125.0205.9
40 to 491,231285.776.177.724.30125.0185.3
50 to 59935173.579.666.612.1110.0092.7
60 to 691,360214.383.955.548.500123.6
70 to 79968132.786.644.400092.7
80 to 8967781.688.244.400041.2
90 to 9966071.489.644.400030.9
100 to 10920720.590.100220.000
110 to 11957251.091.144.400010.3
120 to 12912110.291.3012.1000
130 to 13913010.291.511.10000
140 to 14971551.092.511.112.10030.9
150 to 15961340.893.311.100030.9
160 to 16916410.293.5000010.3
170 to 1991,64391.895.322.212.10125.051.5
200 to 2992,931122.497.777.736.40020.6
300 to 4992,20461.298.922.224.30020.6
500 to 7991,75630.699.511.100020.6
800 and over2,22120.5100.011.112.1000

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306 of 306 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 249. 15 columns: stub, 4 whole-table columns, four two-column union blocks under "Elections in which representation rights were won by", and a final two-column block for "Elections in which no representative was chosen". Decimal points: in this scan many decimal points in the percent and cumulative-percent columns failed to print, leaving a gap (e.g. "25 2", "100 0", "26 5", "16 3"). Every such column holds one-decimal percentages, so these are transcribed with the decimal point restored. No digits were altered. "100 to 109", Number eligible to vote: the hundreds digit is broken/smudged on the page and reads ambiguously (0 or 6). The column sums to the printed total 519,634 only with 11,682, so that is what is entered. This is the one cell whose glyph I could not read directly. Section line: the panel head prints as "A" followed by a wide gap and "Certification Elections (RC and RM)"; the period after "A" did not ink. Transcribed as "A. Certification Elections (RC and RM)". Stray marks: the "40 to 49" and "180 to 189" cells in "Percent of total" each carry a comma-like speck after the final digit ("5 5," and "0.5,"); treated as scanning dirt, not punctuation. Cross-checks all pass as printed: every data row's five outcome Number cells sum to its Total elections, every Number column sums to its printed total, and the Total elections column sums to 8,368. No arithmetic discrepancy found. Crop coverage: this image shows only panel A (Certification Elections, RC and RM) and ends at "3,000 to 9,999"; any further size classes, the panel B section (decertification/deauthorization elections) and the text of footnote 1 — whose marker appears on the caption — are below the crop and not transcribed here.

p. 250. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 15 columns (stub + 14): a size-of-unit column, then number of elections / percent / cumulative percent, then six paired number-and-percent columns whose element counts are 91, 47, 10, 4 and 338. "B. Decertification elections (RD)" is printed centred above the table's top rule, as a part heading for this section of the table; it is transcribed as a label-only row because it is a section line within the table and not the table caption. The scan loses many faint decimal points, so cells print as e.g. "100 0", "24 1", "19 2", "32 7". These are transcribed with the decimal point restored; no digits were changed. Column rules and the arithmetic confirm the column assignments: the five element columns sum to 490 (91+47+10+4+338), each percent column sums to 100.0, the size column sums to 24,697, and the cumulative column is the running sum of the rounded percent column (which also confirms 0.5 in the percent column for "100 to 109" and for "800 and over", where the unrounded values are 0.41). Doubtful cells: "30 to 39", percent column of the 91-element group, read as 17.5 although 16/91 = 17.58 would round to 17.6 — read as printed, and the column then sums to exactly 100.0. Likewise "Under 10" and "10 to 19" in the last (338-element) percent column read 32.7 and 23.3 although 111/338 and 79/338 round to 32.8 and 23.4; as read, that column sums to exactly 100.0. Cells printed as a dash rule are transcribed as empty.

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Source page 249 of NLRB FY1974 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1974, p. 249.
Source page 250 of NLRB FY1974 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1974, p. 250.

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.