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Valid Votes Cast in Representation Elections, by Final Results of Election, in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1981

printed as Table 14 · source pages 220–223 · nlrb1981_p0220_t0

Stitched from pp. 220–223.

Participating unionsTotal valid votes castValid votes cast in elections wonValid votes cast in elections lost
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castVotes for unionsTotal votes for no unionVotes for unionsTotal votes for no union
Participating unionsTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no union
A. All representation elections
AFL-CIO253,75852,15352,15326,90559,22559,225115,475
Teamsters70,55812,75812,7585,92716,20716,20735,666
Other national unions11,3033,4333,4331,5142,0322,0324,324
Other local unions12,1183,4193,4191,5601,9571,9575,182
1-union elections347,73771,76352,15312,7583,4333,41935,90679,42159,22516,2072,0321,957160,647
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO8,9234,4824,4824821,6031,6032,356
AFL-CIO v Teamsters9,3134,7902,1392,6517601,2833878962,480
AFL-CIO v national5,4834,8261,9162,9109519551144367
AFL-CIO v local14,31810,6706,0684,6025428592016582,247
Teamsters v national2407542331214311139
Teamsters v local2,6701,62992070914041634175485
Teamsters v Teamsters1421421420000
National v local775746287459785314
National v national150002213
Local v local1,7411,5581,55854555574
2-union elections43,62028,91814,6053,7553,2307,3282,0924,4352,2421,2401627918,175
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO14610110145000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters4841514101271270342
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local191915400000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v local818126541000000
AFL-CIO v national v. local53483432500000
Local v local v local170005512
3 (or more)-union elections8002641595543750132127005354
Total representation elections392,157100,94566,91716,5686,70610,75438,04883,98861,59417,4472,1942,753169,176
B Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO222,53944,06944,06922,45853,48853,488102,524
Teamsters61,64011,53511,5355,31613,98713,98730,802
Other national unions9,6192,5252,5251,2011,8731,8734,020
Other local unions11,1503,2713,2711,4911,7821,7824,606
1-union elections304,94861,40044,06911,5352,5253,27130,46671,13053,48813,9871,8731,782141,952
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO8,4674,0764,0764431,6031,6032,345
AFL-CIO v Teamsters9,0844,6862,0882,5987371,2563858712,405
AFL-CIO v national4,8944,4681,7762,692881264122212
AFL-CIO v local13,84510,2195,8564,3635208592016582,247
Teamsters v national2407542331214311139
Teamsters v local2,4781,44680564113141634175485
Teamsters v Teamsters7373730000
National v local539514160354385314
National v national150002213
Local v local1,1401,0781,07846888
2-union elections40,77526,63513,7963,5182,8856,4361,9804,2922,1931,2151407447,868
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO14610110145000
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters4841514101271270342
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local191915400000
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v local818126541000000
AFL-CIO v national v local53483432500000
Local v local v local170005512
3 (or more)-union elections8002641595543750132127005354
Total RC elections346,52388,29958,02415,1085,4539,71432,49675,55455,80815,2022,0132,531150,174
C Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO3,6877597592577047041,967
Teamsters1,156242242119164164631
Other national unions72759359381262627
Other local unions993939330027
1-union elections5,6691,633759242593394908947041642602,652
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO178132132350011
AFL-CIO v Teamsters550500000
AFL-CIO v local1101002278100000
Teamsters v Teamsters6969690000
National v local23623212710540000
Local v. local113000474766
2-union elections7115381547412718349470004777
Total RM elections6,3802,17191331672022253994170416426472,729
D. Elections in RD cases
AFL-CIO27,5327,3257,3254,1905,0335,03310,984
Teamsters7,7629819814922,0562,0564,233
Other national unions957315315232133133277
Other local unions86910910936175175549
1-union elections37,1208,7307,3259813151094,9507,3975,0332,05613317516,043
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO2782742744000
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters224995148232722575
AFL-CIO v. national5893581402187694722155
AFL-CIO v. local363351190161120000
Teamsters v. local1921831156890000
Local v. local.4884804808000
2-union elections2,1341,74565516321870963964925220230
Total RD elections39,25410,4757,9801,1445338185,0137,4935,0822,08115517516,273

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Reader’s notes

p. 220. 14 columns: stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" (Votes for unions: Total, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions; plus Total votes for no union) and the same six under "Valid votes cast in elections lost". Arithmetic check: every one of the 13 numeric columns sums correctly from its detail rows to the printed "1-union elections", "2-union elections" and "3 (or more)-union elections" subtotals, and those three subtotals sum to the printed "Total representation elections" row. No misprints detected. Section line: the panel heading is printed as a letter followed by "All representation elections"; the period after the "A" is very faint in this 1-bit scan, so it may be printed as "A All representation elections". The crop shows only panel A; panel B and any further panels continue on later pages. Row-label periods: this scan drops many small marks, so the "v." separators are inconsistent. The period is clearly visible only in "AFL-CIO v national v. local" (second separator); elsewhere the separator reads as a bare "v". The labels have been transcribed as the marks appear on this image rather than normalized. Trailing dots after "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local.", "AFL-CIO v Teamsters v local ." and "AFL-CIO v national v. local . . ." were treated as leader dots and dropped. Stray single dots (scan speckle or ellipsis placeholders) appear in otherwise empty cells and were transcribed as "": "AFL-CIO" row / Teamsters (won); "Other local unions" row / Teamsters (won); "National v local" row / AFL-CIO unions (won); "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local" row / Other national unions (lost). The caption carries a superscript footnote marker 1, but no footnote text appears within this crop; the footnote is presumably printed below the continuation of the table on a later page. The caption itself is omitted per instructions.

p. 221. Continuation page of Table 14 (panel B only); the caption carries a superscript 1 but no footnote text is printed on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Punctuation: the scan's small periods are largely lost. The section line reads "B Elections in RC cases" and the comparison labels read "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO", "Teamsters v national", etc.; in the printed original these almost certainly carry periods ("B." and "v."), but no period is legible here, so they are transcribed without. Likewise "Teamsters v local .." and "Local v local ." show trailing leader-dot remnants, which were dropped. Stray marks treated as empty cells (leader-dot/speck artifacts, not values): a dot in the "Other local unions" row under "Other national unions" (elections-lost side), and a dot in the "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v local" row under "Teamsters" (elections-won side). A small dot also trails the "Teamsters" and "Total RC elections" stub labels. Legibility: the last subtotal cell "2,531" (Total RC elections, Other local unions, elections lost) has a degraded middle digit; it is read as 5 and is consistent with the column (1,782 + 744 + 5 = 2,531). Arithmetic check: every row sum (won total + won no-union + lost total + lost no-union = total valid votes cast), every union-detail sum into the "Total" columns, and all four subtotal/total rows reconcile exactly as transcribed. No misprints detected.

p. 222. Crop is a "—Continued" page carrying only panel C of Table 14; the caption's footnote marker 1 refers to a note printed elsewhere, and no footnote text appears on this image, so `footnotes` is empty. The table appears to continue past the bottom rule (panel D is not on this crop). The centered section line is printed "C Elections in RM cases"; the character after the C is either a faint period or just wide letterspacing, so it is transcribed without punctuation. Several faint isolated dots sit in otherwise empty cells and are read as leader-dot/speck artifacts, not values, and are transcribed as "": AFL-CIO row, lost "Other national unions"; Teamsters row, won "Other national unions"; AFL-CIO v local row, just left of the 10 in won "Total votes for no union"; 2-union elections row, just left of the 47 in lost "Total"; and leader dots in the stub of "Other national unions", "Local v. local" and "2-union elections". Every column and every row cross-foots exactly against the printed "1-union elections", "2-union elections" and "Total RM elections" lines (e.g. 5,669 + 711 = 6,380; 759 + 154 = 913; 2,652 + 77 = 2,729), which confirms the column assignment of the sparse single-entry cells. No misprints detected.

p. 223. Crop is a continuation page of Table 14 showing only section D ("D. Elections in RD cases"), which is printed as a full-width section line across the body with no values of its own. The column headings are reprinted on this page, so they are transcribed. Column structure: 14 columns — stub, "Total valid votes cast", then six columns under "Valid votes cast in elections won" (Votes for unions: Total / AFL-CIO unions / Teamsters / Other national unions / Other local unions, plus "Total votes for no union"), then the same six under "Valid votes cast in elections lost". The two outer spanners are centered over their full six-column blocks, so the rightmost "Total votes for no union" is read as belonging to the "elections lost" block, by symmetry with the "won" side. Punctuation uncertainty from the scan: periods are frequently dropped or reduced to specks in this image. The section line reads as "D" followed by a gap before "Elections in RD cases", and the paired-union labels read as "AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO" etc. I have transcribed these with the periods standard in this report series ("D." and "v."), but the periods are not clearly legible on the image. The trailing period written in "Local v. local." is visible as printed (it may instead be the first leader dot). Row labels in this block are set with the "Local" of "Local v. local." in a lighter/italic-looking face; that is a typographic artifact only. Blank cells: many empty cells carry stray leader dots or specks (e.g., the AFL-CIO row under "Teamsters" and "Other local unions" on both the won and lost sides); all such cells are transcribed as "". No cell in this crop holds a printed zero that I read as a dot, and no cell holds a printed dot that I read as a zero, to the extent the scan allows. Arithmetic check (not applied as a correction, only as verification): every row sums across (votes won by unions + no-union votes won + votes lost by unions + no-union votes lost = total valid votes cast) and every subtotal and the grand total sum down correctly — 1-union elections, 2-union elections, and Total RD elections all reconcile exactly in all 13 numeric columns. No misprint detected. The caption carries a footnote marker (superscript 1) and a "—Continued" line; both are omitted per instructions, and the single footnote printed under the table is given in full.

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Source page 220 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 220.
Source page 221 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 221.
Source page 222 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 222.
Source page 223 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 223.

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.