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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1978
| 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 | 140 | 89 | 63.6 | 51 | 36.4 | 9,060 | 3,087 | 34.1 | 5,973 | 65.9 | 7,116 | 78.5 | 2,451 | 27.1 |
| AFL-CIO Unions | 96 | 59 | 61.5 | 37 | 38.5 | 5,563 | 2,436 | 43.8 | 3,127 | 56.2 | 4,441 | 79.8 | 1,888 | 33.9 |
| Teamsters | 34 | 25 | 73.5 | 9 | 26.5 | 3,138 | 499 | 15.9 | 2,639 | 84.1 | 2,362 | 75.3 | 436 | 13.9 |
| Other national unions | 5 | 3 | 60.0 | 2 | 40.0 | 159 | 68 | 42.8 | 91 | 57.2 | 133 | 83.6 | 55 | 34.6 |
| Other local unions | 5 | 2 | 40.0 | 3 | 60.0 | 200 | 84 | 42.0 | 116 | 58.0 | 180 | 90.0 | 72 | 36.0 |
- 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 deauthorization.
40 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 278. 15 columns: stub plus three spanner groups (Number of polls, 5 columns; Employees involved, 5 columns; Valid votes cast, 4 columns). "Total" under Number of polls, "Total eligible" under Employees involved, and "Total" and "Percent of total eligible" under Valid votes cast are tall single headings repeated down all heading levels; "In polls" is a level-2 spanner over the four Employees-involved detail columns, so the heading grid has four levels. In many of the one-decimal percent cells the decimal point is very faint or dropped out in the scan, so it reads as a space (e.g. "36 4", "65 9", "78 5" in the Total row; "38 5", "43 8", "56 2", "79 8", "33 9" in AFL-CIO Unions; "73 5", "26 5", "15 9", "13 9" in Teamsters; "60 0", "40 0", "42 8", "57 2", "83 6" in Other national unions; "60 0", "42 0", "90 0" in Other local unions). These are decimal points, not thousands separators or missing digits, and are transcribed as "." — every one of these values matches the ratio of the printed counts to the printed base to within rounding. All column and percentage arithmetic checks out: the four affiliation rows sum to the printed Total row in every count column (140, 89, 51, 9,060, 3,087, 5,973, 7,116, 2,451), and each percent agrees with its underlying counts. No suspected misprints. The crop shows the full table, caption, and the single footnote.
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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.