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Valid Votes Cast in Representation Elections, by Final Results of Election, in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1975

printed as Table 14 · source pages 249–252 · nlrb1975_p0249_t0

Stitched from pp. 249–252.

Participating unionsTotal valid votes castValid votes cast in elections wonValid votes cast in elections 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-CIO294,05557,42057,42029,58470,86070,860136,191
Teamsters74,40415,15015,1507,15016,44916,44935,655
Other national unions39,5659,3929,3925,7539,1769,17615,244
Other local unions16,3695,5045,5041,7143,0773,0776,074
1-union elections424,39387,46657,42015,1509,3925,50444,20199,56270,86016,4499,1763,077193,164
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO12,0414,7424,7429792,4312,4313,889
AFL-CIO v Teamsters18,50710,4875,8164,6718002,6841,2181,4664,536
AFL-CIO v. national5,9272,6591,5461,1131891,2192309891,860
AFL-CIO v. local28,65826,31011,40414,906663474376981,211
Teamsters v national1,262851399452240604416111
Teamsters v local2,7501,73387186248351102249618
Teamsters v. Teamsters5852526000
National v. local1,9501,8121,1956171380000
National v. national23417317361000
Local v local71855155155353109
2-union elections72,10549,37023,5085,9932,93316,9363,1297,2724,2551,6121,00540012,334
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO1,454606047610610737
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters521497139358240000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v national10276751260000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local1,3801,369815554110000
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national1155514014025192435
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local787782161402219500000
AFL-CIO v. National v. local77977620250470300000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. national v local211207450162400000
All others14914933524870000000
3 (or more)-union elections5,4983,9711,5018355431,092120635629240772
Total representation elections501,996140,80782,42921,97812,86823,53247,450107,46975,74418,06310,1853,477206,270
B. Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO275,21952,48052,48027,07167,46967,469128,191
Teamsters69,10814,30614,3066,68715,48415,48432,635
Other national unions37,7108,8328,8325,4688,8358,83514,579
Other local unions16,0465,3445,3441,6313,0563,0566,015
1-union elections398,08380,96252,48014,3068,8325,34440,85794,84467,46915,4848,8353,056181,420
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO11,8594,6384,6389742,4012,4013,846
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters17,8939,9035,4854,4187982,6781,2121,4664,514
AFL-CIO v national5,5612,2971,3249731851,2192309891,860
AFL-CIO v. local27,36225,71611,11514,60165729022367699
Teamsters v. national1,258851399452240604416107
Teamsters v. local2,4481,6438268174731364249445
Teamsters v. Teamsters5852526000
National v. Teamsters1,7321,6801,065615520000
National v national23417317361000
local v. local60844144155353109
2-union elections69,01347,39422,5625,6952,66316,4743,0257,0144,0661,5741,00536911,580
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO1,454606047610610737
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters521497139358240000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. national10276751260000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. local719708386322110000
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national1155514014025192435
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. local787782161402219500000
AFL-CIO v. national v. local77977620250470300000
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. national v. local211207450162400000
All others14914933524870000000
3 (or more)-union elections4,8373,3101,072835543860120635629240772
Total RC elections471,933131,66676,11420,83612,03822,67844,002102,49372,16417,0609,8443,425193,772
C. Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO5,9241,2501,2506871,0911,0912,896
Teamsters1,800241241823533531,124
Other national unions687757528160160424
Other local unions1056565117722
1-union elections8,5161,6311,25024175658081,6111,09135316074,466
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO1821041045303043
AFL-CIO v Teamsters27826312813526607
AFL-CIO v local1831831503300000
Teamsters v national400000004
Teamsters v local191601600003
Local v local1101101100000
2-union elections77667638213501597363600057
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local66166142923200000
3 (or more)-union elections661661429002320000000
Total RM elections9,9532,9682,061376754568151,6471,12735316074,523
AFL-CIO12,9123,6903,6901,8262,3002,3005,096
Teamsters3,4966036033816126121,900
Other national unions1,168485485257181181245
Other local unions218959572141437
1-union elections17,7944,8733,690603485952,5363,1072,300612181147,278
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters336321203118000015
AFL-CIO v. national36636222214040000
AFL-CIO v. local1,113411139272618415331512
Teamsters v. local283744529138380170
National v. local2181321302860000
2-union elections2,3161,3005641632703039722215338031697
Total RD elections20,1106,1734,2547667553982,6333,3292,453650181457,975

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  1. See Glossary for definitions of terms.

609 of 609 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 3 cells break a sum: 'AFL-CIO', column 2: prints 275,219, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 275,211; 'Teamsters', column 2: prints 69,108, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 69,112; 'Other national unions', column 2: prints 37,710, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 37,714.

Reader’s notes

p. 249. 14 columns: stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" (Total, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions, Total votes for no union) and the same six under "Valid votes cast in elections lost". The caption carries a superscript footnote marker 1, but no footnote text is printed within this crop (the body ends at the "Total representation elections" row and its closing double rule), so `footnotes` is empty. The crop shows only panel "A. All representation elections"; a part B of this table is presumably printed on a following page and is not in this image. Row labels in the stub are inconsistently punctuated in the original ("v" vs "v." between union names); they are transcribed exactly as printed. Two labels wrap in print and are joined here: "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO" and "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. national v local". Doubtful/low-contrast cells, all read as given: on row "National v. national", the lost-side "Total" cell shows a small stray ink mark after the 0 (read as 0); on row "AFL-CIO v. National v. local", the won-side "Other local unions" value 70 is preceded by a stray tick mark (read as 70, not a footnote marker); on row "All others", the lost-side "Total" cell has a stray mark to its left (read as 0). Some stray specks also appear in the empty stub area under the heading and beside the "Other local unions"/"AFL-CIO" rows; they are not footnote markers. No printed value was computed, corrected or normalized; digit-grouping spaces in the original (e.g. "294, 055") were closed up.

p. 250. The crop continues a table from the preceding page: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 14 columns (stub + 13 value columns), counted from the column rules and confirmed by the "Total RC elections" line. "B. Elections in RC cases" is printed centred above the table's top rule; it is carried as a section row with no values. Column placement was checked against the printed subtotals and every column cross-foots: each of the 13 value columns in the 1-union block sums to the "1-union elections" line, in the 2-union block to "2-union elections", in the 3-or-more block to "3 (or more)-union elections", and those three subtotals sum to "Total RC elections". No discrepancies were found. Possible misprint in a row label: the row printed "National v. Teamsters" carries its values in the 5th/6th and 11th/12th value columns — the columns that every other row uses for "other national" and "other local" unions — and contributes nothing to the Teamsters columns (the Teamsters column total 5,695 = 4,418+399+826+52 excludes it, while the national column total 2,663 and local column total 16,474 include its 1,065 and 615). The arithmetic therefore fits a row for national v. local; the label is transcribed as printed. Several labels print "v" with no period after it in the scan ("AFL-CIO v national", "National v national", "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. national", "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. local"); these are transcribed as they appear, but the periods may simply be lost ink. "local v. local" begins with a lower-case l as printed. Doubtful cell: row "National v national", 12th value column (the second "other local" column) — read as blank/dash rule, but it may be a printed 0. Either reading is consistent with the column total (369 = 67+249+53). The row label "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. national v. local" wraps onto two printed lines ("... v. national" / "v. local") and is joined here. Blank-looking cells in the value columns are a mix of dash rules and whitespace in the original; all are rendered as "".

p. 251. The crop is a continuation page showing only panel "C. Elections in RM cases" of Table 14; the column headings are reprinted in full on this page and are transcribed above. The caption carries a footnote marker (1) but no footnote text is printed on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. 14 columns: stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" (Total, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions, Total votes for no union) and the same six under "Valid votes cast in elections lost". Cells printed as dash rules (leaders) are rendered as ""; printed zeros are kept as 0. In the body, "v" is printed as a lowercase roman "v" (versus) and is transcribed as such. All arithmetic was checked and is internally consistent: each detail row sums across (won + no-union-won + lost + no-union-lost = total valid votes), the four single-union rows sum to the 1-union subtotal, the six two-union rows to the 2-union subtotal, and the three subtotals to "Total RM elections" (8,516 + 776 + 661 = 9,953); no misprints were detected. Image quality is good; no cell was illegible.

p. 252. Column count: 14 (stub + 13 numeric columns), read off the vertical rules; a heavier rule divides columns 6/7 and another sets off the last column, so the body belongs to two six-column groups plus a final single column. No column headings are printed on this crop (it continues the table from the preceding page), so header_rows is empty. Top of crop: a line of type is clipped by the crop at the very top (roughly centered over the numeric field, appearing to read something like "B. Elections in ... units"). Only the lower fragments of the letters survive and it is not legible, so it is not transcribed as a row or heading. Bottom of crop: the footnote line is clipped horizontally — only the upper halves of the letters are visible. I read it as "See Glossary for definitions of terms."; no footnote marker is visible before "See", and any further footnote lines below are cut off by the crop. Doubtful cells: - "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters", last column: a speck precedes the figure so it prints as ".15"; transcribed as 15, which is consistent with the column total 697 (15+0+512+170+0). - "AFL-CIO", last column: a stray mark sits above the "0" in 5,096; read as 5,096, consistent with the 1-union total 7,278. - Two-union row labels: the period after "v" is clearly inked in "AFL-CIO v. national" and "Teamsters v. local" but faint or absent in "AFL-CIO v Teamsters", "AFL-CIO v local" and "National v local". I transcribed "v." throughout on the assumption of broken type; a reader needing the literal glyphs should re-check those three labels. Dash rules ("------") in the body are transcribed as empty cells per instruction; printed zeros are kept as 0. Arithmetic: every row and column total on the crop reconciles (e.g. 12,912+3,496+1,168+218 = 17,794; 564+163+270+303 = 1,300; 17,794+2,316 = 20,110; 7,278+697 = 7,975). No misprints detected.

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Source page 249 of NLRB FY1975 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1975, p. 249.
Source page 250 of NLRB FY1975 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1975, p. 250.
Source page 251 of NLRB FY1975 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1975, p. 251.
Source page 252 of NLRB FY1975 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1975, p. 252.

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.