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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1977
| 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 | 142 | 81 | 57.0 | 61 | 43.0 | 9,125 | 3,036 | 33.3 | 6,089 | 66.7 | 7,095 | 77.8 | 3,551 | 38.9 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 85 | 46 | 54.1 | 39 | 45.9 | 5,973 | 2,289 | 38.3 | 3,684 | 61.7 | 4,647 | 77.8 | 2,458 | 41.2 |
| Teamsters | 47 | 31 | 66.0 | 16 | 34.0 | 2,336 | 558 | 23.9 | 1,778 | 76.1 | 1,810 | 77.5 | 791 | 33.9 |
| Other national unions | 5 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 100.0 | 615 | 0 | 0.0 | 615 | 100.0 | 495 | 80.5 | 188 | 30.6 |
| Other local unions | 5 | 4 | 80.0 | 1 | 20.0 | 201 | 189 | 94.0 | 12 | 6.0 | 143 | 71.1 | 114 | 56.7 |
- 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 deauthoriaztion.
38 of 38 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 308. 15 columns: stub plus 5 under "Number of polls", 5 under "Employees involved", 4 under "Valid votes cast". The header has four printed levels; "Total" (col 1), "Total eligible" (col 6), "Total" (col 11) and "Percent of total eligible" (col 12) are tall single headings repeated down the levels they span, and "In polls" occupies only level 2 over cols 7-10. Decimal points: in several percent cells the printed period is faint or dropped out in the scan, appearing as a space ("38 3", "76 1", "0 0", "100 0", "61 7" is clear). These are the AFL-CIO "Percent of total" employees cell, the Teamsters employees continued-authorization percent, and both "Other national unions" zero percents plus its 100.0. They are transcribed with decimal points, consistent with the rest of each column and with the arithmetic. Every figure checks out internally: the four affiliation rows sum to the Total row in all count columns (142, 81, 61, 9,125, 3,036, 6,089, 7,095, 3,551), and every printed percent matches its implied ratio to one decimal, so no misprints are suspected in the body. The footnote is transcribed as printed, including the typo "deauthoriaztion" for "deauthorization". A small stray ink mark sits in the right margin beside the header, outside the table rules; it is not a footnote marker or data.
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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.