NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1981 › Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1981 and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936-1981
Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1981 and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936-1981
| Fiscal year 1981 | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1981 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1981 | |||||||||
| Total | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Number | Percent | |
| Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals | 515 | 452 | 51 | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcement | 479 | 421 | 46 | 10 | 2 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 8,145 | 100.0 |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 306 | 263 | 36 | 7 | 0 | 62.5 | 78.3 | 70.0 | 5,176 | 63.5 | |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 67 | 63 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15.0 | 8.7 | 1,262 | 15.5 | ||
| Remanded to Board | 29 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5.7 | 6.5 | 10.0 | 50.0 | 373 | 4.6 |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.6 | 131 | 1.6 | |||
| Board orders set aside | 66 | 60 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14.2 | 6.5 | 20.0 | 50.0 | 1,203 | 14.8 |
| On petitions for contempt | 36 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 32.3 | 20.0 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 16 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 41.9 | 60.0 | ||||
| Court order directing compliance, without contempt adjudication | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | |||||
| Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 | |||||
| Court order denying petition | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3.2 | 20.0 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 231 | 100.0 | |||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 | 138 | 59.8 | |||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7.4 | ||||
| Board orders set aside | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50.0 | 38 | 16.5 | |||
| Remanded to Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8.2 | ||||
| Remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.9 | ||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
- 1 "Proceedings" are comparable to "cases" reported in annual reports prior to fiscal 1964. This term more accurately describes the data inasmuch as a single "proceeding" often includes more than one "case." See Glossary for definitions of terms.
- 2 A proceeding in which the Board had entered an order dismissing the complaint and the charging party appealed such dismissal in the courts of appeals
57 of 66 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 235. 12 columns: stub + 5 "Number of proceedings" + 4 "Percentages" + 2 cumulative. The "July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1981" heading is a tall heading spanning the top two levels above "Number"/"Percent"; the stub has no printed heading, so cell 0 is empty in all three header levels. PERIODS: this scan systematically drops the period glyph. Decimal points survive in only two cells on the whole page ("60.0" in Court orders holding respondent in contempt / Percentages Vs. unions only, and "6.9" in Remanded to court of appeals / Percent); everywhere else the same typesetting prints as a gap ("100 0", "62 5", "0 4"). Likewise "U S", "Sept 30", "Vs unions". I have restored these decimal points and sentence/abbreviation periods, on the reading that they are reproduction dropout rather than how the page was set. All restored values are confirmed by arithmetic: every percentage equals the implied ratio to one decimal (e.g. 263/421=62.5, 13/31=41.9, 5,176/8,145=63.5), and all column sums check (452+51+10+2=515; 306+67+29+11+66=479; 11+16+5+2+2=36; 479+36=515; 5,176+1,262+373+131+1,203=8,145; 138+17+38+19+16+1+1+1=231). No printed total appears to be in error. EMPTY CELLS: the percentage columns are peppered with lone or paired dots (".", "..", "...", ". . .", ".....") used as not-applicable/negligible markers, plus a few in the cumulative Number and Percent columns of the contempt block. Per the rules these are transcribed as "". Affected rows include the two "Proceedings decided by..." lines, Board orders affirmed in full / with modification, the whole contempt sub-block, and all eight Supreme Court sub-rows. Their exact dot counts are not recoverable with confidence at this resolution, but none of them carries a value. Row 9's label is printed with a terminal period ("before court order.") before its leader dots; I dropped it. Row 19 ("Remanded to court of appeals.") likewise. Rows 6, 11, 12 and 20 are two-line labels joined here. "Appendix" runs vertically in the right margin and the page number 225 appears at lower right; both omitted.
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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.