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Industrial Distribution of Cases Received, Fiscal Year 1978

printed as Table 5 · source pages 261–262 · nlrb1978_p0261_t0

Stitched from pp. 261–262.

Industrial group	All cases	Unfair labor practice cases								Representation cases				Union deauthorization cases	Amendment of certification cases	Unit clarification cases
Industrial group	All cases	All C cases	CA	CB	CC	CD	CE	CG	CP	All R cases	RC	RM	RD	UD	AC	UC
Food and kindred products	2,491	1,841	1,304	472	40	15	2	0	8	615	512	16	87	9	7	19
Tobacco manufacturers	28	26	10	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Textile mill products	525	384	313	65	4	0	0	0	2	137	110	4	23	1	1	2
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials	798	620	474	116	10	0	0	0	20	175	139	19	17	3	0	0
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)	860	537	426	100	8	2	0	0	1	313	262	14	37	7	0	3
Furniture and fixtures	630	475	392	82	1	0	0	0	0	151	125	7	19	3	0	1
Paper and allied products	870	658	469	157	30	1	0	0	1	190	167	6	17	6	6	10
Printing, publishing, and allied products	1,567	1,112	798	287	14	8	0	0	5	413	307	22	84	10	2	30
Chemicals and allied products	1,038	751	566	158	22	4	0	0	1	269	225	5	39	8	4	6
Petroleum refining and related industries	316	240	174	48	12	4	0	0	2	72	60	0	12	1	0	3
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products	931	642	511	117	12	1	0	0	1	280	228	8	44	7	0	2
Leather and leather products	245	185	149	35	0	0	0	0	1	59	56	1	2	0	0	1
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products	1,058	783	527	202	30	9	2	0	13	264	210	19	35	6	0	5
Primary metal industries	1,762	1,436	951	452	23	6	0	0	4	306	261	14	31	6	0	14
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)	2,158	1,593	1,078	425	46	18	4	0	22	541	456	24	61	17	5	2
Machinery (except electrical)	1,975	1,477	1,068	363	39	2	0	0	5	479	388	23	68	14	0	5
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment and supplies	1,472	1,171	851	293	18	4	0	0	5	277	229	9	39	5	6	13
Aircraft and parts	308	264	165	92	5	1	0	0	1	41	29	0	12	1	0	2
Ship and boat building and repairing	539	495	321	165	4	2	0	0	3	41	36	0	5	1	1	1
Automotive and other transportation equipment	1,537	1,322	905	400	14	3	0	0	0	205	179	6	20	4	2	4
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods, watches and clocks	376	280	216	61	1	0	0	0	2	86	73	4	9	6	1	3
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	1,554	1,181	713	447	14	3	3	0	1	357	313	7	37	7	1	8
Manufacturing	23,038	17,473	12,381	4,553	347	83	11	0	98	5,273	4,367	208	698	122	36	134
Metal mining	166	141	102	34	5	0	0	0	0	24	22	1	1	0	1	0
Coal mining	529	461	248	100	96	1	5	0	11	64	47	6	11	0	1	3
Oil and gas extraction	54	38	26	5	4	2	0	0	1	15	14	0	1	0	0	1
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)	167	108	68	21	12	0	1	0	6	58	40	10	8	1	0	0
Mining	916	748	444	160	117	3	6	0	18	161	123	17	21	1	2	4
Construction	4,729	4,245	1,646	1,067	962	243	82	0	245	470	312	126	32	5	0	9
Wholesale trade	3,044	1,756	1,345	332	56	6	3	0	14	1,249	997	91	161	21	1	17
Retail trade	5,413	3,534	2,746	634	76	11	6	0	61	1,789	1,253	180	356	67	4	19
Finance, insurance, and real estate	787	545	405	99	23	4	4	0	10	229	198	10	21	6	3	4
U.S. Postal Service	1,212	1,201	923	278	0	0	0	0	0	9	7	0	2	0	0	2
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation	540	391	284	100	4	0	0	0	3	141	117	5	19	5	2	1
Motor freight transportation and warehousing	3,262	2,530	1,763	640	90	4	15	0	18	700	586	46	68	9	6	17
Water transportation	460	399	157	157	59	6	14	0	6	53	46	0	7	1	2	5
Other transportation	359	269	150	69	35	3	7	0	5	89	79	5	5	0	0	1
Communication	1,133	807	540	249	7	9	2	0	0	294	237	13	44	5	2	25
Electric, gas, and sanitary services	742	554	381	125	33	11	4	0	0	164	135	5	24	1	5	18
Transportation, communication, and other utilities	6,496	4,950	3,275	1,340	228	33	42	0	32	1,441	1,200	74	167	21	17	67
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places	809	614	469	111	18	4	5	0	7	186	148	12	26	6	0	3
Personal services	333	249	170	74	3	0	0	0	2	76	61	5	10	8	0	0
Automotive repair, services, and garages	431	238	178	48	8	0	0	0	4	189	141	15	33	4	0	0
Motion pictures	271	239	130	82	12	2	5	0	8	32	29	1	2	0	0	0
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)	291	208	110	68	20	0	8	0	2	78	48	8	22	1	0	4
Health services	2,764	1,755	1,443	231	17	1	1	59	3	938	775	38	125	24	11	36
Educational services	335	208	168	35	5	0	0	0	0	116	106	0	10	1	2	8
Membership organizations	432	349	232	100	14	0	3	0	0	74	55	6	13	2	1	6
Business services	1,453	1,025	733	215	41	14	3	0	19	406	362	12	32	7	4	11
Miscellaneous repair services	168	97	79	15	2	1	0	0	0	69	60	1	8	0	1	1
Legal services	50	25	22	3	0	0	0	0	0	25	24	0	1	0	0	0
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens	5	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0
Social services	171	115	104	11	0	0	0	0	0	52	43	1	8	2	0	2
Miscellaneous services	73	49	38	5	6	0	0	0	0	24	13	5	6	0	0	0
Services	7,586	5,174	3,878	999	146	22	25	59	45	2,267	1,867	104	296	55	19	71
Public administration	40	26	13	7	6	0	0	0	0	14	14	0	0	0	0	0
Total, all industrial groups	53,261	39,652	27,056	9,469	1,961	405	179	59	523	12,902	10,338	810	1,754	298	82	327

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1 See Glossary for definitions of terms.
2 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Statistical Policy Division, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, 1972.

722 of 722 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 261. 17 columns: stub, "All cases", 8 unfair-labor-practice columns (All C cases, CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG, CP), 4 representation columns (All R cases, RC, RM, RD), then UD, AC, UC. "All cases", "Union deauthorization cases", "Amendment of certification cases" and "Unit clarification cases" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels, so they are repeated in both. Arithmetic check: in all 16 numeric columns the 22 industry rows sum exactly to the printed "Manufacturing" line (23,038; 17,473; 12,381; 4,553; 347; 83; 11; 0; 98; 5,273; 4,367; 208; 698; 122; 36; 134), so no misprint is apparent and the column alignment is corroborated. The crop is cut off after the "Manufacturing" subtotal row: the table continues (nonmanufacturing industries and the grand total) on the following page, and the footnote texts for marker 1 (on the caption) and marker 2 (on the stub heading "Industrial group") are not printed within this crop, hence the empty footnotes list. Scan quality: in the label "Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment and supplies" the first "e" of "electronic" is faint/broken in the scan and reads close to "elctronic"; transcribed as the intended "electronic". The CG column is 0 in every row, including the total. Running head and page number appear sideways in the right margin and are omitted.

p. 262. This crop is the continuation portion of the table: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 cells per row: the stub plus 16 data columns (the last data column is set off to the right by a double vertical rule). The sixteenth column's figures sit slightly high relative to the other columns, but each of the three section subtotals (Mining, Transportation, Services) reconciles exactly in all 16 columns with the detail rows above it, which confirms the column assignments; the "Total, all industrial groups" line does not sum within this crop because it also covers the industry groups printed on the preceding page. The "U.S. Postal Service" label is printed with faint/broken periods in the scan (it reads close to "U S Postal Service"); I transcribed it with the periods. The second footnote line is at the very bottom edge of the crop and is slightly clipped at the baseline, but all of its words are legible. No footnote markers appear on any body row or value in this crop.

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Source page 261 of NLRB FY1978 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1978, p. 261.

Source page 262 of NLRB FY1978 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1978, p. 262.

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.