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Final Outcome of Representation Elections in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1977

printed as Table 13 · source pages 309–311 · nlrb1977_p0309_t0

Stitched from pp. 309–311.

Participating unionsTotal electionsElections won by unionsElections in which no representative chosenEmployees eligible to voteIn elections where no representative chosen
Participating unionsTotal electionsPercent wonTotal wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsElections in which no representative chosenTotalIn elections wonIn units won byIn elections where no representative chosen
Participating unionsTotal electionsPercent wonTotal wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsElections in which no representative chosenTotalIn elections wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsIn elections where no representative chosen
A. All representation elections
AFL-CIO5,27844.42,3462,3462,932330,408110,185110,185220,223
Teamsters2,82141.51,1701,1701,65191,96531,60231,60260,363
Other national unions47046.021621625447,20514,71914,71932,486
Other local unions37559.222222215324,85310,91110,91113,942
1-union elections8,94444.23,9542,3461,1702162224,990494,431167,417110,18531,60214,71910,911327,014
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO9757.756564111,0444,8074,8076,237
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters13773.010039613714,2799,0623,2505,8125,217
AFL-CIO v. national4977.6381721118,6324,9232,4092,5143,709
AFL-CIO v. local13987.812263591728,04026,1758,20917,9661,865
Teamsters v. national850.041341,15613851871,018
Teamsters v. local3287.528151343,6473,3102,335975337
Teamsters v. Teamsters1060.066423618518551
National v. local1593.3148611,8321,5581,238320274
Local v. local2479.2191952,5872,2862,286301
2-union elections51175.738717583329712471,45352,44418,6758,3833,83921,54719,009
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters650.033031,0885815810507
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. National2100.0220075757500
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Local4100.0440034434434400
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Teamsters10.00001196000196
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. National2100.020020465465004650
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local366.720111532405036540127
AFL-CIO v. National v. National1100.0110016161600
AFL-CIO v. Local v. Local6100.063301,8181,8188929260
Local v. Local v. Local1100.01108686860
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO10.000112300123
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. National1100.0110038383800
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local10.00000151000051
3 (or more)-union elections2975.9221412574,8323,8281,9463654651,0521,004
Total representation elections9,48446.04,3632,5351,2542503245,121570,716223,689130,80640,35019,02333,510347,027
B. Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO4,60847.52,1882,1882,420301,29599,05099,050202,245
Teamsters2,43144.81,0891,0891,34283,09329,18629,18653,907
Other national unions43146.920220222943,93213,95013,95029,982
Other local unions34860.120920913922,4869,3559,35513,131
1-union elections7,81847.23,6882,1881,0892022094,130450,806151,54199,05029,18613,9509,355299,265
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO9057.852523810,9074,7304,7306,177
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters12170.28535503612,2337,0203,0403,9805,213
AFL-CIO v. national4776.6361521118,4854,7762,2622,5143,709
AFL-CIO v. local12486.310755521724,82022,9556,13316,8221,865
Teamsters v. national757.141334231385187285
Teamsters v. local3086.726141242,0921,755816939337
Teamsters v. Teamsters580.04411651581587
National v. local1593.3148611,8321,5581,238320274
Local v. local2382.6191942,5472,2862,286261
2-union elections46275.134715769328911563,50445,37616,1655,0053,83920,36718,128
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters650.033031,0885815810507
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. National2100.0220075757500
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Local4100.0440034434434400
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Teamsters10.00001196000196
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. National2100.020020465465004650
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local250.01010149236503650127
AFL-CIO v. National v. National1100.0110016161600
AFL-CIO v. Local v. Local6100.063301,8181,8188929260
Local v. Local v. Local1100.01108686860
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO10.000112300123
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. National1100.0110038383800
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local10.00000151000051
3 (or more)-union elections2875.0211412474,7923,7881,9463654651,0121,004
Total RC elections8,30848.84,0562,3591,5592363024,252519,102200,705117,16134,55618,25430,734318,397
C. Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO17529.752521235,5391,6991,6993,840
Teamsters12127.33333882,2756026021,673
Other national unions616.7115520197197323
Other local unions1172.78831,111805805306
1-union elections31330.0945233182199,4453,3031,6996021978056,142
C. Elections in RM Cases—Continued
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO450.022292464646
AFL-CIO v. National1100.0110047474700
AFL-CIO v. local4100.0431010910989200
Teamsters v. Teamsters540.022371272744
2-union elections1464.39620153192291822702090
Total RM elections32731.51035835192249,7643,5321,8816291978256,232
D. Elections in RD cases
AFL-CIO49521.410610638923,5749,4369,43614,138
Teamsters26917.848482216,5971,8141,8144,783
Other national unions3339.41313202,7535725722,181
Other local unions1631.355111,256751751505
1-union elections81321.21721064813564134,18012,5739,4361,81457275121,607
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO366.722145313114
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters1693.81541112,0462,0422101,8324
AFL-CIO v. National1100.0110010010010000
AFL-CIO v. Local11100.0115603,1113,1111,9871,1240
Teamsters v. National10.00001733000733
Teamsters v. Local2100.021101,5551,5551,519360
Local v. Local10.0001400040
2-union elections3588.63112120747,6306,8392,3283,35101,160791
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local1100.010010404000400
3 (or more)-union elections1100.01000104040000400
Total RD elections84924.020411860131364541,85019,45211,7645,1655721,95122,398

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  1. 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms.
  2. 2 Includes each unit in which a choice as to collective-bargaining agent was made, for example, there may have been more than one election in a single case, or several cases may have been involved in one election unit.

723 of 724 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 2 cells break a sum: 'Total RC elections', column 4: prints 4,056, columns 5 to 8 add to 4,456; 'Total RC elections', column 6: prints 1,559, the subtotals in rows '1-union elections' to '3 (or more)-union el' add to 1,159.

Reader’s notes

p. 309. Crop ends immediately below the "Total representation elections" row, so no footnote texts are visible; the list is empty even though two markers are referenced on the page (a "1" on the caption, excluded per instructions, and a raised marker on the "Total elections" column heading). That heading marker is a small, partly broken glyph; I read it as "2" (giving "Total elections^2"), but "3" cannot be fully ruled out at this scan quality. Column structure: 16 columns. "Elections won by unions" spans six columns (Percent won, Total won, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions). "Employees eligible to vote" spans six columns (Total, In elections won, and four under "In units won by": AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions). "In units won by" is read as spanning all four of those sub-columns, including "Other local unions"; the spanning rule's right end is faint, but the arithmetic confirms it (e.g. 1-union elections: 110,185 + 31,602 + 14,719 + 10,911 = 167,417 = "In elections won"). Section line "A. All representation elections" is printed as a centered banner across the body with no values; the crop contains no panel B. Dash rules ("------") used as empty-cell fillers are transcribed as "". Printed zeros are kept as 0 and are distinguishable from the dash rules in every cell. Scan artifacts, all resolved by cross-footing: in "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. National" the "In elections won" value 465 and the "In units won by / AFL-CIO unions" value 0 carry stray ink that makes them look struck through; the readings 465 and 0 are confirmed since 0 + 0 + 465 = 465. In "Other national unions" and a few other rows the leader dots run close to the first digit, but no digit is obscured. Verification: every arithmetic relation in the table holds as transcribed — component union columns sum to "Total won"; "Total won" + "no representative chosen" = "Total elections"; the four "In units won by" columns sum to "In elections won"; "In elections won" + "In elections where no representative chosen" = "Total" employees; each percent matches "Total won" / "Total elections"; and the three subtotal rows (1-union 8,944, 2-union 511, 3-or-more 29) sum to the grand total 9,484 in every column. No printed value appears to be a misprint.

p. 310. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 15 value columns plus the stub; column structure was confirmed from the printed subtotals (cols 4-7 are a won-by breakdown summing to col 3, which plus col 8 gives col 1; cols 11-14 are the matching employee breakdown summing to col 10, which plus col 15 gives col 9). SUSPECTED MISPRINT: in "Total RC elections", column 5 is printed as 1,559, but its parts (1-union 1,089 + 2-union 69 + 3-or-more 1 = 1,159) and the row's own column 3 (2,359 + 1,159 + 236 + 302 = 4,056, as printed) both imply 1,159. The glyph after the comma reads as a 5 in the scan, so it is transcribed as printed; a reader should treat this cell as doubtful (either an original misprint for 1,159 or a 1/5 scan confusion). Every other cell in the table reconciles exactly with its printed subtotals and totals. The percent column prints one decimal throughout, but on this scan many of the decimal points are broken or lost (e.g. "44 8", "100 0", "75 0", "29 7"); they are transcribed with the decimal point restored, in line with the rule for the spaced thousands comma. Likewise the period after "v" in several row labels ("Teamsters v national", "Local v local", "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. National", "AFL-CIO v. National v National", "Local v. Local v Local") is faint or dropped and has been written as "v." to match the rest of the table; capitalisation is kept as printed (lowercase "national"/"local" in the 2-union block, capitalised in the 3-or-more block). "B. Elections in RC cases" and "C. Elections in RM cases" are the panel/section lines spanning the full width and carry no values. The three long 3-or-more-union labels wrap over two or three printed lines and have been joined ("Team- sters" to "Teamsters"; "AFL-" + "CIO" to "AFL-CIO"). Dash rules ("------") are rendered as empty cells; printed zeros are kept as 0. A "See footnotes at end of table" line appears below the body, clipped by the bottom edge of the crop; there are no numbered footnotes on this page, so footnotes is empty. The running head "Appendix" and the page number 295 in the right margin are excluded. Panel C is cut off after its "1-union elections" subtotal, where the page ends.

p. 311. 16 printed columns; the crop continues Table 13 from the preceding page, so the body opens mid-section with the section line "C. Elections in RM Cases—Continued" (kept as a row because it carries a label; it is a within-body section head, not the caption's continuation line). Punctuation is badly inked throughout this 1-bit scan: many decimal points in the "Percent won" column print as a gap ("100 0", "40 0", "0 0", "31 3", "24 0") and the periods in the section-D row labels ("AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO", "D Elections in RD cases") are likewise invisible. Since every such value is a one-decimal percentage and the matching section-C labels do show the points, I have written the decimal points and label periods uniformly rather than reproducing the dropouts. Likewise the terminal periods of both footnotes are not visible and were supplied. Cells printed as dash rules (-------) are rendered "" per instruction; printed zeros are kept as 0. In section C the label is "AFL-CIO v. local" with a lowercase l, while the corresponding section-D label is "AFL-CIO v. Local" with a capital L — transcribed as printed in each case. A small stray mark sits immediately left of 733 in the last column ("In elections where no representative chosen") of the "Teamsters v. National" row; it is a speck or broken rule rather than a footnote marker, so the cell is given as 733. A similar faint tick appears above the rule between the "Elections won by unions" spanner and the header rule, and another in the blank band above "D. Elections in RD cases"; both are scan debris. No arithmetic was altered. All internal checks pass: component elections sum to each subtotal and total, won + no-representative = total elections, and the "In units won by" columns sum to "In elections won", which with the no-representative column sums to "Total" employees eligible, in every subtotal and in both "Total RM elections" and "Total RD elections".

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Source page 309 of NLRB FY1977 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1977, p. 309.
Source page 310 of NLRB FY1977 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1977, p. 310.
Source page 311 of NLRB FY1977 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1977, p. 311.

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.