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Formal Actions Taken in Unfair Labor Practice Cases, Fiscal Year 1981

printed as Table 3A · source page 189 · nlrb1981_p0189_t0

Types of formal actions takenCases in which formal actions takenFormal actions taken by type of case
Types of formal actions takenCases in which formal actions takenTotal formal actions takenCACBCCCDCECGCPCA combined with CBC combined with representation casesOther C combinations
Types of formal actions takenCases in which formal actions takenTotal formal actions takenCACBCCJurisdictional disputesUnfair labor practicesCECGCPCA combined with CBC combined with representation casesOther C combinations
10(k) notices of hearings issued716060
Complaints issued5,8015,7114,67249721123112801039814
Backpay specifications issued1431381151400000900
Hearings completed, total1,3111,2581,0901636370160828252
Initial ULP hearings1,2701,2191,0511636370160828252
Backpay hearings151313000000000
Other hearings262626000000000
Decisions by administrative law judges, total1,3401,2551,12985705584111
Initial ULP decisions1,2911,2131,0988270558413
Backpay decisions211514100000000
Supplemental decisions282717200000008
Decisions and orders by the Board, total1,7331,5961,3371064052683131489
Upon consent of parties
Initial decisions25920512635164408309
Supplemental decisions000000000000
Adopting administrative law judges' decisions (no exceptions filed)
Initial ULP decisions4073603411030002310
Backpay decisions433000000000
Contested
Initial ULP decisions9909638145121522433670
Decisions based on stipulated record252321100000100
Supplemental ULP decisions222000000000
Backpay decisions464030900000100

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135 of 138 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 189. 14 columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", "Total formal actions taken", then CA, CB, CC, CD (split into Jurisdictional disputes / Unfair labor practices), CE, CG, CP, CA combined with CB, C combined with representation cases, Other C combinations. Row "10(k) notices of hearings issued": only two figures are printed in the type-of-case block — 60 under CD "Jurisdictional disputes" — and a short dash rule sits in the CD "Unfair labor practices" column, which I transcribed as an empty cell per the blank/dash rule. All other type-of-case cells in that row are blank (not zeros). Where the CD "Jurisdictional disputes" column is empty in other rows the cell really is blank on the page, not a printed 0; only the "Unfair labor practices" half of CD carries a 0. Scan speckle: a stray ink dot precedes "106" in the CB column of "Decisions and orders by the Board, total" (read as 106); similar isolated dots appear in the stub area and in blank cells of the 10(k), "Hearings completed, total", "Backpay hearings", "Other hearings" and "Upon consent of parties" rows, and two marks sit in the right margin beside "Backpay hearings"/"Other hearings". None are digits or footnote markers. Trailing leader dots were dropped from labels (e.g. "Backpay hearings." is printed with a terminal leader dot). The two-line label "Adopting administrative law judges' decisions (no exceptions filed)" was joined into one row. All row and column arithmetic I spot-checked is internally consistent (e.g. 4,672+497+211+23+11+2+80+103+98+14 = 5,711; 1,337+106+40+52+6+8+3+13+14+8+9 = 1,596), so no misprints are suspected.

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Source page 189 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 189.

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.