NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1979 › Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1979
| Total | Identification of filing party | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Individuals | Employers | |
| All cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 21,211 | 8,190 | 2,418 | 788 | 766 | 6,871 | 2,178 |
| Received fiscal 1979 | 54,907 | 18,135 | 6,389 | 1,526 | 1,521 | 21,934 | 5,402 |
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 76,118 | 26,325 | 8,807 | 2,314 | 2,287 | 28,805 | 7,580 |
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 55,794 | 18,139 | 6,482 | 1,554 | 1,580 | 22,417 | 5,622 |
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 20,324 | 8,186 | 2,325 | 760 | 707 | 6,388 | 1,958 |
| Unfair labor practice cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 16,942 | 6,107 | 1,512 | 562 | 517 | 6,362 | 1,882 |
| Received fiscal 1979 | 41,259 | 12,134 | 3,154 | 943 | 757 | 19,781 | 4,490 |
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 58,201 | 18,241 | 4,666 | 1,505 | 1,274 | 26,143 | 6,372 |
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 41,544 | 11,819 | 3,135 | 945 | 786 | 20,219 | 4,640 |
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 16,657 | 6,422 | 1,531 | 560 | 488 | 5,924 | 1,732 |
| Representation cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 4,024 | 2,020 | 898 | 221 | 233 | 408 | 244 |
| Received fiscal 1979 | 12,905 | 5,819 | 3,198 | 568 | 733 | 1,808 | 779 |
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 16,929 | 7,839 | 4,096 | 789 | 966 | 2,216 | 1,023 |
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 13,465 | 6,129 | 3,309 | 593 | 750 | 1,853 | 831 |
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 3,464 | 1,710 | 787 | 196 | 216 | 363 | 192 |
| Union-shop deauthorization cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 96 | 96 | |||||
| Received fiscal 1979 | 330 | 330 | |||||
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 426 | 426 | |||||
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 328 | 328 | |||||
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 98 | 98 | |||||
| Amendment of certification cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 32 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Received fiscal 1979 | 64 | 35 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 96 | 56 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 14 |
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 81 | 43 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 14 |
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Unit clarification cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1978 | 117 | 42 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 4 | 47 |
| Received fiscal 1979 | 349 | 147 | 33 | 12 | 20 | 13 | 124 |
| On docket fiscal 1979 | 466 | 189 | 40 | 15 | 34 | 17 | 171 |
| Closed fiscal 1979 | 376 | 148 | 34 | 11 | 32 | 14 | 137 |
| Pending September 30, 1979 | 90 | 41 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 34 |
182 of 182 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 278. Eight printed columns: stub (no printed heading), "Total" (spans both heading levels), and six columns under the spanner "Identification of filing party". The six section lines ("All cases", "Unfair labor practice cases^2", "Representation cases^3", "Union-shop deauthorization cases", "Amendment of certification cases", "Unit clarification cases") are printed centred across the data area with no values, so their value cells are empty. In the "Union-shop deauthorization cases" block every cell except Total and Individuals holds a dash rule (------), transcribed as "". All row and column sums in the image check out (each row's six filing-party figures add to its Total, and the five case-type blocks add to "All cases"), so no misprints are suspected. In footnote 1 the sentence-ending periods after "terms" and "not included" are faint/broken in the scan; they are rendered here as periods on the strength of the sentence structure. Elsewhere the scan drops many thousands-separator commas and periods (e.g. "1 526", "21 934", "11 819"); these have been normalized back to commas per instructions, with the digits transcribed as seen. Footnote marker 1 attached to the caption is omitted with the caption.
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.