NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1980 › Time Elapsed for Major Case Processing Stages Completed, Fiscal Year 1980; and Age of Cases Pending Decision, September 30, 1980
| Stage | Median days |
|---|---|
| I Unfair labor practice cases | |
| A Major stages completed — | |
| 1 Filing of charge to issuance of complaint | 46 |
| 2 Complaint to close of hearing | 155 |
| 3 Close of hearing to issuance of administrative law judge's decision | 158 |
| 4 Administrative law judge's decision to issuance of Board decision | 133 |
| 5 Filing of charge to issuance of Board decision | 484 |
| B Age of cases pending administrative law judge's decision September 30, 1980 | 362 |
| C Age of cases pending Board decision September 30, 1980 | 547 |
| II Representation cases | |
| A Major stages completed — | |
| 1 Filing of petition to notice of hearing issued | 8 |
| 2 Notice of hearing to close of hearing | 11 |
| 3 Close of hearing to — | |
| Board decision issued | 187 |
| Regional director's decision issued | 19 |
| 4 Filing of petition to — | |
| Board decision issued | 295 |
| Regional director's decision issued | 42 |
| B Age of cases pending Board decision September 30, 1980 | 295 |
| C Age of cases pending Regional Director's decision September 30, 1980 | 46 |
p. 307. Two printed columns: the stub ("Stage") and "Median days". The stub uses a hanging outline (I/II, A/B/C, 1-5) with no periods after the numerals/letters, transcribed as printed with a single space after the numeral or letter. Rows "I Unfair labor practice cases", "II Representation cases", "A Major stages completed —" (twice), "3 Close of hearing to —" and "4 Filing of petition to —" are label-only lines; their value cell is "". The dashes ending "Major stages completed —", "Close of hearing to —" and "Filing of petition to —" are printed em dashes in the label, not dash rules standing for a missing value. Under II.3 and II.4 the two unnumbered continuation lines "Board decision issued" and "Regional director's decision issued" each carry their own median, so each is a separate row; they appear twice (187/19 under item 3, 295/42 under item 4). "Regional director's" is lowercase in those lines and in row II.A as printed, while row II.C prints "Regional Director's" capitalised — both kept as printed. The raised 1 in rows I.B and I.C and the raised 2 in rows II.B and II.C are footnote markers, recorded after "Age" behind a caret. The scan renders dotted i's faintly in several words (e.g. "issuance", "administrative"); the readings are unambiguous from context. No leader dots are used in this table, and no values are cut off by the crop.
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.