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Objections Filed in Representation Cases Closed, by Party Filing, Fiscal Year 1980

printed as Table 11C · source page 279 · nlrb1980_p0279_t0

TotalBy employerBy unionBy both parties
NumberPercent by typeNumberPercent by typeNumberPercent by typeNumberPercent by type
All representation elections1,281100.053141.571856.0322.5
By type of case
RC cases1,161100.050243.263855.0211.8
RM cases20100.015.01680.0315.0
RD cases100100.02828.06464.088.0
By type of election
Consent elections29100.0724.11965.6310.3
Stipulated elections914100.036940.452957.9161.7
Expedited elections5100.0240.0360.000.0
Regional director-directed elections322100.015247.215849.1123.7
Board-directed elections11100.019.1981.819.1

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  1. 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms
  2. 2 Objections filed by more than one party in the same case are counted as one

35 of 35 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 279. Nine columns: an unlabelled stub plus four two-column party panels (Total, By employer, By union, By both parties), each split into Number and "Percent by type". Decimal points: in this scan the period in the percent columns is frequently dropped or reduced to a blank, so many cells image as "100 0", "41 5", "43 2", "24 1", "65 6", "47 2", "81 8", "2 5", etc., while others ("56.0", "80.0", "57.9") show the period clearly. I have transcribed all of these as one-decimal percentages, which is what the column is typeset to carry. This reading is corroborated by arithmetic: in every body row the employer, union and both-parties percentages sum to exactly 100.0 (e.g. 41.5+56.0+2.5; 43.2+55.0+1.8; 24.1+65.6+10.3; 47.2+49.1+3.7; 9.1+81.8+9.1). No digits were inferred — only the position of the decimal separator. Number columns are fully consistent as printed: 1,161+20+100 = 1,281 and 29+914+5+322+11 = 1,281; employer 502+1+28 = 531 and 7+369+2+152+1 = 531; union 638+16+64 = 718 and 19+529+3+158+9 = 718; both parties 21+3+8 = 32 and 3+16+0+12+1 = 32. No misprints detected. "By type of case" and "By type of election" are section labels with no values. The second is followed by a small mark that is most likely a colon rendered as a single dot; I have omitted the trailing punctuation rather than guess at it. "By type of case" carries no such mark. A stray ink dot sits in the blank right-hand part of the stub cell on the "RC cases" row; it is a printing artifact, not a footnote marker or a value, and is not transcribed. "Regional director-directed elections" wraps onto two printed lines ("Regional director-directed" / "elections") and is joined here; the hyphen in "director-directed" is a true hyphen, not an end-of-line break. Terminal periods on both footnotes are absent or too faint to confirm, so none is supplied. The raised marker on the "By both parties" heading is small and could read as 2 or 3; it is transcribed as 2, matching the second footnote, whose text (objections by more than one party counted as one) is the one that applies to that column.

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Source page 279 of NLRB FY1980 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1980, p. 279.

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.