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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1980
| 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 | 152 | 83 | 54.6 | 69 | 45.4 | 15,312 | 4,300 | 28.1 | 11,012 | 71.9 | 10,948 | 71.5 | 3,518 | 23.0 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 98 | 55 | 56.1 | 43 | 43.9 | 8,479 | 2,887 | 34.0 | 5,592 | 66.0 | 6,797 | 80.2 | 2,285 | 26.9 |
| Teamsters | 34 | 22 | 64.7 | 12 | 35.3 | 2,853 | 766 | 26.8 | 2,087 | 73.2 | 2,300 | 80.6 | 706 | 24.7 |
| Other national unions | 9 | 1 | 11.1 | 8 | 88.9 | 3,014 | 146 | 4.8 | 2,868 | 95.2 | 1,073 | 35.6 | 110 | 3.6 |
| Other local unions | 11 | 5 | 45.5 | 6 | 54.5 | 966 | 501 | 51.9 | 465 | 48.1 | 778 | 80.5 | 417 | 43.2 |
- 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. 281. Periods reproduce very faintly in this scan: every percentage cell appears as a digit group separated by a blank (e.g. \"54 6\", \"28 1\", \"23 0\"). These are decimal points and have been transcribed as such; each one checks out arithmetically against its own column pair (83/152 = 54.6, 4,300/15,312 = 28.1, 3,518/15,312 = 23.0, and so on for every row). The same faintness affects the footnote, where \"Sec 8(a)(3)\" is read as \"Sec. 8(a)(3)\" and a terminal period is supplied.\n\nThe table is internally consistent: the four affiliation rows sum exactly to the Total row in all eight count columns (98+34+9+11 = 152; 55+22+1+5 = 83; 43+12+8+6 = 69; 8,479+2,853+3,014+966 = 15,312; 2,887+766+146+501 = 4,300; 5,592+2,087+2,868+465 = 11,012; 6,797+2,300+1,073+778 = 10,948; 2,285+706+110+417 = 3,518). No misprints detected.\n\nTwo stray ink specks are scan dirt, not characters: a small blot immediately left of \"12\" in the Teamsters row under Number of polls / Resulting in continued authorization, and a dot in the stub margin beside \"Other national unions\". Neither is transcribed.\n\nColumn structure: 15 columns (stub plus 5 under \"Number of polls\", 5 under \"Employees involved\", 4 under \"Valid votes cast\"). Four heading levels are used because \"In polls\" occupies a band of its own above the \"Resulting in ...\" headings in the Employees involved block, while the parallel \"Resulting in ...\" headings under \"Number of polls\" are set one level lower and span two levels. Columns 13 and 15 both carry the heading \"Percent of total eligible\"; the last one belongs to the \"Cast for deauthorization\" pair.
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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.