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Valid Votes Cast in Representation Elections, by Final Results of Election, in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1979

printed as Table 14 · source pages 313–316 · nlrb1979_p0313_t0

Stitched from pp. 313–316; a later page prints different headings, kept as rows.

Participating unionsTotal valid votes castValid votes cast in elections wonValid votes cast in elections lost
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castVotes for unionsTotal votes for no unionVotes for unionsTotal votes for no union
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no union
A. All representation elections
AFL-CIO286,99353,10953,10927,48671,09471,094135,304
Teamsters79,46215,50015,5007,23318,70718,70738,022
Other national unions52,61611,36611,3665,95613,41213,41221,882
Other local unions19,3776,0006,0002,6303,1633,1637,584
1-union elections438,44885,97553,10915,50011,3666,00043,305106,37671,09418,70713,4123,163202,792
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO9,7593,4183,4183942,0772,0773,870
AFL-CIO v Teamsters4,3843,2351,2232,012402250117133497
AFL-CIO v national7,1402,6691,3661,3033251,4702341,2362,676
AFL-CIO v local18,37914,9087,6297,2792,166629252377676
Teamsters v national9493731382358613026104360
Teamsters v local3,6701,5971,00759057915898171,101
Teamsters v Teamsters8277772112
National v local55550210839491101133
National v national51000202031
Local v local82674474482000
2-union elections45,79527,52313,6363,2341,6469,0073,5235,5032,6801,0581,3604059,246
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO1313130000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters4673128301661660270
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v national999000000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local2,7622,7361,795941260000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national273164341120441170454
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local11111178123000000
AFL-CIO v national v local18400000755700109
AFL-CIO v local v local17,28017,0539,0977,9562270000
Teamsters v national v. local234234222111000000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO57414116000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v local350347140020523000000
Local v local v local5756561000
3 (or more)-union elections21,79720,79511,1331275468,9893172521780740433
Total representation elections506,040134,29377,87818,86113,55823,99647,145112,13173,95219,76514,8463,568212,471
B Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO260,04346,41546,41523,77766,00466,004123,847
Teamsters73,80314,74114,7416,80717,70017,70034,555
Other national unions48,93510,18010,1805,55612,73612,73620,463
Other local unions18,6675,6355,6352,4593,1353,1357,438
1-union elections401,44876,97146,41514,74110,1805,63538,59999,57566,00417,70012,7363,135186,303
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO9,2232,9012,9013902,0722,0723,860
AFL-CIO v Teamsters3,5752,5029661,536326250117133497
AFL-CIO v national6,6542,1919471,2443171,4702341,2362,676
AFL-CIO v local17,18613,9067,2446,6621,984629252377667
Teamsters v national9493731382358613026104360
Teamsters v local3,3591,31587344248907891161,089
Teamsters v Teamsters3937372000
National v Teamsters43938610827891101133
National v national51000202031
Local v local82674474482000
2-union elections42,30124,35512,0582,5841,5878,1263,2445,4892,6751,0501,3604049,213
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO1313130000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters43600001661660270
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v national999000000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local2,7622,7361,795941260000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national175673064431170454
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v local11111178123000000
AFL-CIO v. national v local18400000755700109
AFL-CIO v local v local17,28017,0539,0977,9562270000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO57414116000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v local350347140020523000000
Local v local v local5756561000
3 (or more)-union elections21,43420,43311,105812698,9783162521780740433
Total RC elections465,183121,75969,57817,40612,03622,73942,159105,31668,85718,75014,1703,539195,949
C. Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO5,0488428424429859852,779
Teamsters1,05824624694168168550
Other national unions333101022020301
Other local unions35212112211
1-union elections6,4741,11984224610215391,1759851682023,641
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO5215175174000
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters2422382821040000
AFL-CIO v. local363633300000
National v. local110110011000000
2-union elections90990954821001438000000
Total RM elections7,3832,0201,390456101645471,1759851682023,641
D Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD casesD Elections in RD cases
AFL-CIO21,9025,8525,8523,2674,1054,1058,678
Teamsters4,6015135133328398392,917
Other national unions3,3481,1761,1763986566561,118
Other local unions6753443441702626135
1-union elections30,5267,8855,8525131,1763444,1675,6264,1058396562612,848
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO150005510
AFL-CIO v Teamsters567495229266720000
AFL-CIO v national4864784195980000
AFL-CIO v local1,1579663825841820009
Teamsters v local311282134148987112
Teamsters v Teamsters4340400112
National v local660600000
2-union elections2,5852,2671,0304405973827114580133
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters313128300000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national989704156100000
Teamsters v national v local234234222111000000
3 (or more)-union elections3633622846277111000000
Total RD elections33,47410,5146,9109991,5121,0934,4395,6404,1108476562712,881

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  1. 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms

618 of 619 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 4 cells break a sum: '2-union elections', column 3: prints 909, columns 4 to 7 add to 901; '2-union elections', column 2: prints 909, the subtotals in columns 3 to 14 add to 917; '2-union elections', column 3: prints 909, rows 'AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO' to 'National v. local' add to 901; 'Total RM elections', column 3: prints 2,020, the subtotals in rows '1-union elections' to '2-union elections' add to 2,028.

Reader’s notes

p. 313. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the table ends mid-section after "Local v local v local" with no "3-union elections" subtotal row and no section B, and no footnote block is visible on this image (the caption carries a raised "1" marker whose text is not on this crop), so `footnotes` is empty. Arithmetic cross-checks all pass: in every data row the four main components (won-for-unions total, won-for-no-union, lost-for-unions total, lost-for-no-union) sum to "Total valid votes cast", the component union columns sum to the "Total" within each "Votes for unions" block, and the "1-union elections" and "2-union elections" subtotals equal the sums of their member rows in all 13 numeric columns. No misprints detected. Doubtful text (not numbers): - Section line, row 1: printed as "A" followed by a gap then "All representation elections". A period after "A" is consistent with the series style but is not clearly resolvable at this scan resolution; transcribed as "A. All representation elections". - The "v" (versus) separators in the row labels are printed inconsistently. Most are a bare "v", but a period appears after the first "v" in "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v local" and after the second "v" in "Teamsters v national v. local". These two dots are faint and could be print specks rather than intentional periods. - In the stub, the multi-line labels "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO / v AFL-CIO" and "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v / local" were joined into single labels. Column placement of lone zeros was checked against the union types named in each row label (e.g. in "AFL-CIO v national v local" the filled lost-side cells are AFL-CIO unions, Other national unions and Other local unions), and every row is internally consistent on that test. Blank cells in the image are printed as leader-dot/dash rules and are rendered as "".

p. 314. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop, so header_rows is empty. The grid is the stub plus 13 numeric columns. Column structure inferred from the printed figures (not used to alter any cell): col 1 is a total that equals col 2 + col 7 + col 8 + col 13; col 2 is the sum of cols 3-6 and col 8 the sum of cols 9-12, each quartet being AFL-CIO / Teamsters / other national / other local, as fixed by the four single-union rows (AFL-CIO 46,415 in col 3; Teamsters 14,741 in col 4; Other national 10,180 in col 5; Other local 5,635 in col 6). Every row sum and every column sum in the three blocks checks out against the printed subtotals and the "Total RC elections" line, which is strong evidence that each value is under the right column. Doubtful row label: the eighth row of the 2-union block reads to me as "National v Teamsters", but its figures sit in the "other national" and "other local" columns (108 and 278 in cols 5 and 6; 0 and 11 in cols 11 and 12), with dash rules under both the AFL-CIO and Teamsters columns, and the column subtotals only balance with the values in those positions (col 4 subtotal 2,584 = 1,536+138+873+37 leaves no room for 108). The block also otherwise enumerates each distinct pair exactly once, and a "National v local" line is the only one missing while "Teamsters v national" already appears. So this label is most likely "National v local" either misprinted in the report or lost to the coarse 1-bit scan; I transcribed the characters as I read them. Periods after "v" in the union-pairing labels are mostly invisible in this scan and are transcribed as seen; they do survive in two places ("AFL-CIO v. national v local" and the second line of "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO"), which suggests the original prints "v." throughout. The same applies to the section line, written here as "B Elections in RC cases"; the wide gap after "B" suggests a printed "B." whose period dropped out. "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v local", column 4: a stray speck precedes the figure (prints as ", 81"); transcribed as 81, which the column subtotal of 81 confirms. Blank cells are printed as dash rules (------) and are given as "". Row labels wrapped over two printed lines ("AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO" and "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v national v local") are joined into one row each.

p. 315. 14 columns: stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" (Total / AFL-CIO unions / Teamsters / Other national unions / Other local unions, plus "Total votes for no union"), and the same six under "Valid votes cast in elections lost". Suspected misprint, transcribed as printed: in the "2-union elections" row the "Valid votes cast in elections won — Votes for unions — Total" cell reads 909, the same as the "Total valid votes cast" cell. The component columns of that row sum to 901 (548 + 210 + 0 + 143), 909 − 8 votes for no union = 901, and the "Total RM elections" figure 2,020 − 1,119 (1-union elections) = 901. The printed digits are nevertheless 9-0-9, not 9-0-1. Punctuation: this is a coarse 1-bit scan and small periods are largely lost. The section line prints as "C" followed by a wide space before "Elections", and the paired-union labels print as "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO" etc.; I have transcribed the customary periods ("C." and "v.") since the spacing indicates they are present, but they are not individually legible at this resolution. Cells shown as a dash rule ("----------") have been transcribed as "" throughout; printed zeros are kept as 0. Note the contrast in the paired-union block, where the "elections lost" side mixes printed 0s and dash rules row by row. Stray ink specks, not transcribed: a small mark at the left edge of the "National v. local" figure 110 (Total valid votes cast column), and a comma-like speck between 909 and 548 in the "2-union elections" row. The crop shows only panel C of the table; panels A and B and the table's footnotes (the caption carries a footnote marker 1) are on earlier pages. No footnotes are printed on this image.

p. 316. The crop is a continuation page showing only panel D of the table: 14 columns (stub + 13 data columns). The only heading printed on this image is the panel band \"D Elections in RD cases\", which spans all 13 data columns; the individual column headings for those 13 columns are printed on an earlier page and are not reconstructed here. Punctuation is routinely lost in this scan (the band reads \"D Elections in RD cases\" with no period after \"D\", the versus rows read \"v\" with no period, and no period is visible at the end of the footnote); all are transcribed as printed. In the \"AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO\" row, column 6 (the sixth data column, i.e. the last of the four sub-columns following column 2) shows a dash rule with a small ink speck above it; I read it as an empty dash-rule cell, not a value. Every value was cross-checked: in each row column 1 = col 2 + col 7 + col 8 + col 13, columns 3-6 sum to column 2 and columns 9-12 sum to column 8, and the three subtotal rows plus \"Total RD elections\" all foot exactly, so no misprints are suspected.

Source image

Source page 313 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 313.
Source page 314 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 314.
Source page 315 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 315.
Source page 316 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 316.

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.