NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1981 › Final outcome of representation elections in cases closed — RM cases
| Participating unions | Total elections | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elections won by unions | Elec-tions with no rep-resent-ative chosen | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | Employees eligible to vote | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen | |
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| Participating unions | Total elections | Per-cent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other na-tional unions | Other local unions | Elec-tions with no rep-resent-ative chosen | Total | In units won by | In units won by | In units won by | In units won by | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen | |
| Participating unions | Total elections | Per-cent won | Total won | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other na-tional unions | Other local unions | Elec-tions with no rep-resent-ative chosen | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Team-sters | Other national unions | Other local unions | In elec-tions where no rep-resent-ative chosen | |
| C Elections at RM cases | |||||||||||||||
| AFL-CIO | 120 | 15.8 | 19 | 19 | 101 | 5,686 | 1,353 | 1,353 | 3,683 | ||||||
| Other national unions | 77 | 19.5 | 15 | 15 | 62 | 1,290 | 415 | 415 | 966 | ||||||
| Other local unions | 4 | 50 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 484 | 408 | 76 | 92 | ||||||
| 1-union elections | 205 | 18 | 38 | 19 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 167 | 7,460 | 2,820 | 1,353 | 415 | 76 | 4,640 | |
| AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO | 6 | 66.7 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 227 | 205 | 205 | 22 | ||||||
| AFL-CIO v. Teamsters | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||||||||
| AFL-CIO v. local | 2 | 100 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 153 | 153 | 72 | |||||||
| Teamsters v. Teamsters | 2 | 100 | 2 | 2 | 72 | 72 | 72 | ||||||||
| National v. local | 1 | 100 | 1 | 1 | 119 | 119 | |||||||||
| Local v. local | |||||||||||||||
| 2-union elections | 12 | 75 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 804 | 673 | 205 | 77 | 238 | 131 | |
| Total RM elections | 217 | 21.7 | 47 | 23 | 17 | 3 | 4 | 170 | 8,264 | 3,493 | 1,558 | 492 | 1,214 | 229 | 4,771 |
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.