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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1977
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | UD cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total, all | 15,436 | 100.0 | 12,471 | 100.0 | 1,098 | 100.0 | 1,867 | 100.0 | 332 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 9,960 | 64.5 | 8,651 | 69.4 | 415 | 37.8 | 894 | 47.9 | 161 | 48.5 |
| After: | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 919 | 6.0 | 761 | 6.1 | 44 | 4.0 | 114 | 6.1 | 31 | 9.3 |
| Before notice of hearing | 457 | 3.0 | 357 | 2.9 | 34 | 3.1 | 66 | 3.5 | 27 | 8.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 458 | 3.0 | 401 | 3.2 | 10 | 0.9 | 47 | 2.5 | 3 | 0.9 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 4 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.3 | |
| Stipulated election | 7,197 | 46.5 | 6,273 | 50.3 | 284 | 25.9 | 640 | 34.3 | 42 | 12.7 |
| Before notice of hearing | 2,484 | 16.1 | 2,040 | 16.3 | 155 | 14.1 | 289 | 15.5 | 33 | 9.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 4,675 | 30.2 | 4,201 | 33.7 | 128 | 11.7 | 346 | 18.5 | 8 | 2.5 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 38 | 0.2 | 32 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.3 |
| Expedited election | 25 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.0 | 20 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Regional director directed election | 1,758 | 11.4 | 1,554 | 12.5 | 65 | 5.9 | 139 | 7.4 | 88 | 26.5 |
| Board directed election | 61 | 0.4 | 58 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| By withdrawal, total | 4,120 | 26.7 | 3,054 | 24.5 | 433 | 39.4 | 633 | 33.9 | 129 | 38.9 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,940 | 12.5 | 1,200 | 9.6 | 310 | 28.1 | 430 | 23.0 | 121 | 36.5 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearings closed | 1,748 | 11.3 | 1,479 | 11.9 | 95 | 8.7 | 174 | 9.3 | 7 | 2.1 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 87 | 0.6 | 77 | 0.6 | 5 | 0.5 | 5 | 0.3 | 0 | |
| After regional director's decision and direction of election | 332 | 2.2 | 288 | 2.3 | 21 | 1.9 | 23 | 1.2 | 1 | 0.3 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 13 | 0.1 | 10 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | |
| By dismissal, total | 1,356 | 8.8 | 766 | 6.1 | 250 | 22.8 | 340 | 18.2 | 42 | 12.6 |
| Before notice of hearing | 678 | 4.5 | 256 | 2.1 | 177 | 16.1 | 245 | 13.1 | 32 | 9.6 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 187 | 1.2 | 105 | 0.8 | 35 | 3.3 | 47 | 2.5 | 7 | 2.1 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 66 | 0.4 | 52 | 0.4 | 7 | 0.6 | 7 | 0.4 | 0 | |
| By regional director's decision | 388 | 2.5 | 323 | 2.6 | 29 | 2.6 | 36 | 1.9 | 3 | 0.9 |
| By Board decision | 37 | 0.2 | 30 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.3 | 0 | |
- 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms
117 of 117 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 302. The table footnote marker 1 is attached to the caption/title ("...Fiscal Year 1977 ^1"), which is excluded from the grid per instructions; the footnote text itself is given in `footnotes`. 11 printed columns: stub plus a Number/Percent pair for each of All R, RC, RM, RD and UD cases. Decimal points: in this scan the period in many Percent cells is very faint or dropped, so the printing reads e.g. "100 0", "64 5", "37 8", "46 5", "25 9", "3 0", "0 0", "16 1", "28 1", "9 9", "11 9", "0 6", "1 9", "0 2", "8 8", "0 8", "0 4", "2 6". Every Percent column is typeset to one decimal place, so I have written these with the decimal point (100.0, 64.5, ...). No digits were altered. Cells printed as a dash rule (------) are transcribed as "": RM Percent on "After hearing closed, before decision" (under Consent election); RD Percent and UD Percent on "Expedited election"; UD Percent on "Board directed election"; UD Percent on "After hearing closed, before decision" and "After Board decision and direction of election" (under By withdrawal); and UD Percent on "After hearing closed, before decision" and "By Board decision" (under By dismissal). The corresponding Number cells in those positions do print 0 and are kept as 0. "After:" is a section line carrying a label and no values; "Consent election", "Stipulated election", "Expedited election", "Regional director directed election" and "Board directed election" are all printed under it at the first indent level, with their own sub-rows indented further. Row-label wording is kept as printed, including the inconsistency between "before hearing closed" (most rows) and "before hearings closed" in the second row under "By withdrawal, total". Arithmetic cross-check (not used to alter any cell): all five column totals reconcile — Certification issued + By withdrawal + By dismissal equals "Total, all" in every Number column, each section's sub-rows sum to its subtotal, and the five certification-method rows sum to 9,960 / 8,651 / 415 / 894 / 161. No misprints detected.
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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.