NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1976 › Final Outcome of Representation Elections in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1976
Stitched from pp. 248–251.
| Participating unions | Total elections | Elections won by unions | Elections in which no representative chosen | Employees eligible to vote | In elections where no representative chosen | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Participating unions | Total elections | Percent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Elections in which no representative chosen | Total | In elections won | In units won by | In elections where no representative chosen | |||
| Participating unions | Total elections | Percent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Elections in which no representative chosen | Total | In elections won | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | In elections where no representative chosen |
| A. All representation elections | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 4,695 | 46.4 | 2,179 | 2,179 | 2,516 | 279,190 | 89,867 | 89,867 | 189,323 | ||||||
| Teamsters | 2,543 | 44.3 | 1,126 | 1,126 | 1,417 | 78,133 | 23,470 | 23,470 | 54,663 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 468 | 50.6 | 237 | 237 | 231 | 34,673 | 12,576 | 12,576 | 22,097 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 355 | 56.6 | 201 | 201 | 154 | 23,601 | 10,460 | 10,460 | 13,141 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 8,061 | 46.4 | 3,743 | 2,179 | 1,126 | 237 | 201 | 4,318 | 415,597 | 136,373 | 89,867 | 23,470 | 12,576 | 10,460 | 279,224 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 145 | 55.9 | 81 | 81 | 64 | 13,657 | 4,317 | 4,317 | 9,340 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 185 | 72.4 | 134 | 62 | 72 | 51 | 19,915 | 11,831 | 4,483 | 7,348 | 8,084 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. national | 42 | 83.3 | 35 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3,126 | 1,821 | 714 | 1,107 | 1,305 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 109 | 84.4 | 92 | 45 | 47 | 17 | 9,817 | 8,271 | 3,718 | 4,553 | 1,546 | ||||
| Teamsters v. national | 15 | 80.0 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 986 | 507 | 353 | 154 | 479 | ||||
| Teamsters v. local | 27 | 81.5 | 22 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 2,218 | 2,090 | 549 | 1,541 | 128 | ||||
| Teamsters v. Teamsters | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 0 | ||||||
| National v. local | 13 | 61.5 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1,194 | 925 | 308 | 617 | 269 | ||||
| National v. national | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 0 | ||||||
| Local v. local | 19 | 89.5 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 4,554 | 4,123 | 4,123 | 431 | ||||||
| 2-union elections | 557 | 72.4 | 403 | 203 | 87 | 30 | 83 | 154 | 55,534 | 33,952 | 13,232 | 8,278 | 1,608 | 10,834 | 21,582 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 3 | 66.7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 444 | 168 | 168 | 276 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 3 | 66.7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 450 | 233 | 233 | 0 | 217 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local | 5 | 60.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 364 | 295 | 215 | 80 | 69 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | ||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. local | 3 | 100.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,011 | 1,011 | 900 | 0 | 111 | 0 | ||
| AFL-CIO v. Local v. local | 3 | 33.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 938 | 368 | 368 | 0 | 570 | ||||
| National v. Local v. local | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v. local | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 961 | 961 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 961 | 0 |
| 3 (or more)-union elections | 20 | 65.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4,273 | 3,060 | 1,884 | 0 | 24 | 1,152 | 1,213 |
| Total representation elections | 8,638 | 48.1 | 4,159 | 2,391 | 1,213 | 268 | 287 | 4,479 | 475,404 | 173,385 | 104,983 | 31,748 | 14,208 | 22,446 | 302,019 |
| B. Elections in RC cases | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 4,179 | 49.1 | 2,050 | 2,050 | 2,129 | 253,695 | 80,705 | 80,705 | 172,990 | ||||||
| Teamsters | 2,273 | 47.1 | 1,071 | 1,071 | 1,202 | 72,066 | 22,027 | 22,027 | 50,039 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 427 | 51.8 | 221 | 221 | 206 | 32,244 | 10,852 | 10,852 | 21,392 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 332 | 57.5 | 191 | 191 | 141 | 22,977 | 10,051 | 10,051 | 12,926 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 7,211 | 49.0 | 3,533 | 2,050 | 1,071 | 221 | 191 | 3,678 | 380,982 | 123,635 | 80,705 | 22,027 | 10,852 | 10,051 | 257,347 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 134 | 54.5 | 73 | 73 | 61 | 13,170 | 3,929 | 3,929 | 9,241 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 163 | 69.9 | 114 | 55 | 59 | 49 | 16,531 | 8,927 | 3,412 | 5,515 | 7,604 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. national | 42 | 83.3 | 35 | 15 | 20 | 7 | 3,126 | 1,821 | 714 | 1,107 | 1,305 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 96 | 84.4 | 81 | 36 | 45 | 15 | 8,447 | 6,986 | 2,826 | 4,160 | 1,461 | ||||
| Teamsters v. national | 14 | 78.6 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 835 | 356 | 202 | 154 | 479 | ||||
| Teamsters v. local | 25 | 80.0 | 20 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2,185 | 2,057 | 549 | 1,508 | 128 | ||||
| Teamsters v Teamsters | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 0 | ||||||
| National v. local | 12 | 66.7 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1,184 | 925 | 308 | 617 | 259 | ||||
| National v. national | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 39 | 39 | 0 | ||||||
| Local v. local | 17 | 94.1 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 4,371 | 4,021 | 4,021 | 350 | ||||||
| 2-union elections | 505 | 71.3 | 360 | 179 | 73 | 30 | 78 | 145 | 49,916 | 29,089 | 10,881 | 6,294 | 1,608 | 10,306 | 20,827 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 3 | 66.7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 444 | 168 | 168 | 276 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 3 | 66.7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 450 | 233 | 233 | 0 | 217 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. local | 5 | 60.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 364 | 295 | 215 | 80 | 69 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | ||
| AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. local | 3 | 100.0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1,011 | 1,011 | 900 | 0 | 111 | 0 | ||
| AFL-CIO v local v local | 3 | 33.3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 938 | 368 | 368 | 0 | 570 | ||||
| National v. local v. local | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. national v. local | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 961 | 961 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 961 | 0 |
| 3 (or more)-union elections | 20 | 65.0 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 4,273 | 3,060 | 1,884 | 0 | 24 | 1,152 | 1,213 |
| Total RC elections | 7,736 | 50.5 | 3,906 | 2,238 | 1,144 | 252 | 272 | 3,830 | 435,171 | 155,784 | 93,470 | 28,321 | 12,484 | 21,509 | 279,387 |
| C. Elections in RM cases | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 171 | 28.1 | 48 | 48 | 123 | 8,678 | 3,419 | 3,419 | 5,259 | ||||||
| Teamsters | 90 | 23.3 | 21 | 21 | 69 | 1,877 | 243 | 243 | 1,634 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 8 | 12.5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 441 | 43 | 43 | 398 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 9 | 66.7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 281 | 254 | 254 | 27 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 278 | 27.3 | 76 | 48 | 21 | 1 | 6 | 202 | 11,277 | 3,959 | 3,419 | 243 | 43 | 254 | 7,318 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 4 | 75.0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 230 | 224 | 224 | 6 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 3 | 100.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 93 | 93 | 60 | 33 | 0 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 6 | 83.3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 207 | 202 | 202 | 0 | 5 | ||||
| 2-union elections | 13 | 84.6 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 530 | 519 | 486 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| Total RM elections | 291 | 29.9 | 87 | 58 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 204 | 11,807 | 4,478 | 3,905 | 276 | 43 | 254 | 7,329 |
| D. Elections in RD cases | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 345 | 23.5 | 81 | 81 | 264 | 16,817 | 5,743 | 5,743 | 11,074 | ||||||
| Teamsters | 180 | 18.9 | 34 | 34 | 146 | 4,190 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 2,990 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 33 | 45.5 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 1,988 | 1,681 | 1,681 | 407 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 14 | 28.6 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 43 | 155 | 155 | 88 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 572 | 23.4 | 134 | 81 | 34 | 15 | 4 | 438 | 23,338 | 8,779 | 5,743 | 1,200 | 1,681 | 155 | 14,559 |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 7 | 71.4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 257 | 164 | 164 | 93 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 19 | 89.5 | 17 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 3,291 | 2,811 | 1,011 | 1,800 | 480 | ||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 7 | 85.7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1,163 | 1,083 | 690 | 393 | 80 | ||||
| Teamsters v. national | 1 | 100.0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 151 | 151 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Teamsters v. local | 2 | 100.0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 0 | 33 | 0 | ||||
| National v. local | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| Local v. local | 2 | 50.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 183 | 102 | 102 | 81 | ||||||
| 2-union elections | 39 | 82.1 | 32 | 14 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 5,088 | 4,344 | 1,865 | 1,951 | 0 | 528 | 744 |
| Total RD elections | 611 | 27.2 | 166 | 95 | 47 | 15 | 9 | 445 | 28,426 | 13,123 | 7,608 | 3,151 | 1,681 | 683 | 15,303 |
680 of 682 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 3 cells break a sum: 'Other national unions', column 10: prints 1,988, the subtotals in columns 11 to 16 add to 2,088; 'Other local unions', column 10: prints 43, the subtotals in columns 11 to 16 add to 243; '1-union elections', column 10: prints 23,338, rows 'AFL-CIO' to 'Other local unions' add to 23,038.
p. 248. Crop is cut off at the bottom: the last transcribed row ("National v. Local v. local") sits on the bottom edge, and the "3-union elections" subtotal line, any further sections (B, C...) and the table's footnotes continue onto the part of the page not shown. The caption's footnote marker 1 is excluded per instructions; the stub-adjacent heading "Total elections" carries footnote marker 2, recorded as "Total elections^2". Decimal points in the "Percent won" column are broken or missing in the scan for several rows; the digits are clear and the gap is where the period is printed, so they are transcribed with the point: AFL-CIO v. national (83.3, printed "83 3"), AFL-CIO v. local (84.4, printed "84 4"), Teamsters v. Teamsters (100.0, printed "100 0"), National v. national (100.0), AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. national (0.0, printed "0 0"), AFL-CIO v. Local v. local (33.3, printed "33 3"), National v. Local v. local (100.0). Each is consistent with Total won / Total elections for that row. The "Teamsters v. national" percent has a damaged final glyph and is read as 80.0 (12/15). Blank cells printed as dash rules (------) are transcribed as "". Printed zeros are kept as 0. Arithmetic cross-checks pass throughout and support the column placement: both subtotal rows ("1-union elections", "2-union elections") equal the sums of their component rows in all 15 numeric columns, the four "In units won by" columns sum to "In elections won" in every row, and "In elections won" + "In elections where no representative chosen" equals employees "Total" in every row. No misprint detected. Two row labels wrap across printed lines and are joined here: "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-|CIO" and "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Team-|sters". Capitalization of "Local" vs "local" in "AFL-CIO v. Local v. local" and "National v. Local v. local" is as printed.
p. 249. Continuation crop: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The first three rows are the tail of the table's part A (its "A." section line is on an earlier page); the panel heading "B. Elections in RC cases" is transcribed as a label-only section row. The grid has 16 columns (stub + 15). Decimal points in the percent column (col 2): the scan renders the point inconsistently — several cells read as a bare space ("48 1", "49 0", "51 8", "66 7", "100 0", "65 0", "50 5", "0 0") while others in the same column clearly show it ("100.0", "65.0", "49.1", "60.0", "71.3", "33.3"). Because a percent column cannot plausibly mix the two forms, I treated the missing point as 1-bit scan dropout and wrote every value with one decimal place. Each one is consistent with col 3 / col 1 (e.g. 2,050/4,179 = 49.1; 81/96 = 84.4; 11/14 = 78.6), so the placement is not in doubt. Periods after "v" in the stub labels are likewise faint and appear genuinely inconsistent in the original typesetting; I transcribed each as observed. Affected labels, where no period is visible: "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v. local" (row 1), "Teamsters v Teamsters", "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. local", "AFL-CIO v local v local", "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v. national v. local" (row 28). Note that rows 1 and 28 are the same line item (section A total vs. its RC counterpart, identical values) yet I read the period after the second "v" as absent in row 1 and present in row 28 — one of the two readings is probably scan artifact rather than a real difference. Empty cells: the table uses both dash rules ("------") and genuinely blank cells for "not applicable"; both are rendered as "". In the "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO" row the cells at columns 5-7 and 12-14 look blank rather than dashed, but the result is the same. Possible misprint, transcribed as printed: "Total representation elections" shows 48.1 in the percent column, but 4,159/8,638 = 48.15, which would normally round to 48.2. Every other percent in the table rounds as expected. Verification: all subtotal and total rows cross-foot exactly against their component rows in every one of the 15 data columns — the 1-union, 2-union, 3 (or more)-union and Total RC elections rows, and the internal identities (col 3 = cols 4+5+6+7; col 1 = col 3 + col 8; col 10 = cols 11+12+13+14; col 9 = col 10 + col 15). This confirms both the digits and the column each value sits under.
p. 250. Continuation page of Table 13; the column headings are reprinted in full, so all three heading levels are transcribed. 16 columns: stub, "Total elections", six columns under "Elections won by unions", "Elections in which no representative chosen", six columns under "Employees eligible to vote" (Total, In elections won, and four under "In units won by"), and the final tall "In elections where no representative chosen". "C. Elections in RM cases" is a centred section line spanning the table with no values; it is kept as a label-only row. Footnote marker on the stub-adjacent heading: the raised character after "Total elections" is small and slightly broken in the scan; it reads most plausibly as a 2 (transcribed "Total elections^2") but could be a 3. The footnote texts themselves (including footnote 1, which is attached to the caption) are not printed on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. All internal arithmetic checks out as printed (e.g. 48+21+1+6 = 76; 3,905+276+43+254 = 4,478; 11,277+530 = 11,807), so no suspected misprints. Blank value cells in the image are printed as dash rules (------) and are transcribed as ""; printed zeros are kept as 0.
p. 251. Continuation crop: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 16 columns (stub + 15 value columns), counted from the vertical rules; the body is in two sections (1-union, 2-union) plus a grand total. "D. Elections in RD cases" is printed centered above the table's top rule and is carried as a section row with no values. Suspected misprints in the 9th value column (total valid votes, the "28,426" column): every other column and every total in the crop adds exactly, but this column does not for two rows. "Other national unions" is printed 1,988 while its own split (1,681 for + 407 against) and the section subtotal require 2,088; "Other local unions" is printed 43 while its split (155 + 88) and the subtotal require 243. Both are transcribed exactly as printed. The printed section subtotal 23,338 and the grand total 28,426 are consistent with the corrected values, not with the printed ones; all other cells reconcile (e.g. 13,123 + 15,303 = 28,426; 134 + 32 = 166). "National v. local", percent column: the cell is damaged in the scan — a faint tick followed by "0 0". Read as 0.0, which matches 0 of 1 election won; the leading character is not fully legible. The scan drops many periods and decimal points. The percent column is clearly one-decimal (e.g. "23. 5" is legible), so cells printed as "18 9", "45 5", "28 6", "23 4", "71 4", "89 5", "100 0", "50 0", "82 1", "27 2" are written with a decimal point. Likewise the period after "v" is legible only in "AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO" and "Teamsters v. local"; it is written in all seven 2-union row labels for consistency with the printed style. Footnote markers 1 and 2 belong to headings that are not on this crop. Final period of footnote 1 and the mark after "made" in footnote 2 (comma vs. semicolon) are not fully legible.
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.