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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1981
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | UD cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total, all | 11,114 | 100.0 | 8,904 | 100.0 | 606 | 100.0 | 1,604 | 100.0 | 257 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 7,564 | 68.1 | 6,445 | 72.4 | 255 | 42.1 | 864 | 53.9 | 147 | 57.2 |
| After | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 277 | 2.5 | 231 | 2.6 | 11 | 1.8 | 35 | 2.2 | 10 | 3.9 |
| Before notice of hearing | 132 | 1.2 | 103 | 1.2 | 8 | 1.3 | 21 | 1.3 | 10 | 3.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 145 | 1.3 | 128 | 1.4 | 3 | 0.5 | 14 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated election | 5,793 | 52.1 | 4,943 | 55.5 | 179 | 29.5 | 671 | 41.9 | 75 | 29.2 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,456 | 13.1 | 1,114 | 12.5 | 80 | 13.2 | 262 | 16.3 | 59 | 23.0 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 4,311 | 38.8 | 3,807 | 42.8 | 99 | 16.3 | 405 | 25.3 | 15 | 5.8 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 26 | 0.2 | 22 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.3 | 1 | 0.4 |
| Expedited election | 18 | 0.2 | 3 | 0.0 | 15 | 2.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional director directed election | 1,451 | 13.1 | 1,245 | 14.0 | 50 | 8.3 | 156 | 9.7 | 62 | 24.1 |
| Board directed election | 25 | 0.2 | 23 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By withdrawal, total | 2,758 | 24.8 | 2,039 | 22.9 | 241 | 39.8 | 478 | 29.8 | 83 | 32.3 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,160 | 10.4 | 683 | 7.7 | 156 | 25.7 | 321 | 20.0 | 76 | 29.6 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,341 | 12.1 | 1,130 | 12.7 | 72 | 11.9 | 139 | 8.7 | 6 | 2.3 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 48 | 0.4 | 38 | 0.4 | 3 | 0.5 | 7 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After regional director's decision and direction of election | 205 | 1.8 | 185 | 2.1 | 9 | 1.5 | 11 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.4 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 4 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By dismissal, total | 792 | 7.1 | 420 | 4.7 | 110 | 18.1 | 262 | 16.3 | 27 | 10.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 392 | 3.5 | 121 | 1.4 | 74 | 12.2 | 197 | 12.3 | 19 | 7.4 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 126 | 1.1 | 71 | 0.8 | 17 | 2.8 | 38 | 2.4 | 1 | 0.4 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 22 | 0.2 | 14 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.2 | 7 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 |
| By regional director's decision | 235 | 2.1 | 197 | 2.2 | 18 | 2.9 | 20 | 1.2 | 6 | 2.3 |
| By Board decision | 17 | 0.2 | 17 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
- 1 See Glossary for definitions of terms
108 of 108 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 207. Eleven columns: stub plus Number/Percent pairs for All R, RC, RM, RD and UD cases. Decimal points: in most Percent cells the decimal point did not survive the scan, so the figures appear as "100 0", "68 1", "2 5" etc. A minority of cells in the same columns show the point clearly ("53.9", "57.2", "29.2", "13.1", "38.8", "25.3", "32.3", "29.6", "8.7", "7.4", "0.4", "0.0"). Since every Percent entry in this table is a one-decimal figure, I have written the point in all of them; no digits were altered. "After" (the line between "Certification issued, total" and "Consent election") is a hanging section label printed with no values; its data cells are empty in the original. Stray marks, not transcribed as content: a small dash/tick sits just left of "29.2" in the UD Percent column of the "Stipulated election" row, and a short vertical stroke follows "0 1" in the All R Percent column of the "After Board decision and direction of election" row. Both read as plate/rule artefacts rather than characters or footnote markers. Internal consistency spot-check (nothing corrected): the All R Number column sums 7,564 + 2,758 + 792 = 11,114, matching "Total, all"; RC 6,445 + 2,039 + 420 = 8,904; RM 255 + 241 + 110 = 606; RD 864 + 478 + 262 = 1,604; UD 147 + 83 + 27 = 257. The "Certification issued, total" components (277 + 5,793 + 18 + 1,451 + 25 = 7,564 for All R) also agree. The right edge of the crop carries the vertical running head "Appendix" and the page number "195"; these were excluded, as was the caption and its footnote reference.
Source image
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.