NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1982 › Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1982
| Method and stage of disposition | All 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 | 7,952 | 100.0 | 5,687 | 100.0 | 614 | 100.0 | 1,651 | 100.0 | 259 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 5,027 | 63.2 | 3,917 | 68.9 | 246 | 40.1 | 864 | 52.3 | 130 | 50.2 |
| After | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 177 | 2.3 | 121 | 2.2 | 8 | 1.3 | 48 | 2.9 | 9 | 3.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 85 | 1.1 | 52 | .9 | 7 | 1.1 | 26 | 1.6 | 8 | 3.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 87 | 1.1 | 66 | 1.2 | 1 | .2 | 20 | 1.2 | 1 | .4 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 5 | .1 | 3 | .1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .1 | 0 | 0 |
| Stipulated election | 4,085 | 51.3 | 3,181 | 55.9 | 182 | 29.7 | 722 | 43.6 | 101 | 39.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,751 | 22.0 | 1,278 | 22.5 | 107 | 17.5 | 366 | 22.1 | 84 | 32.4 |
| After notice of hearing, hearing closed | 2,283 | 28.7 | 1,861 | 32.7 | 75 | 12.2 | 347 | 21.0 | 17 | 6.6 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 51 | .6 | 42 | .7 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .5 | 0 | 0 |
| Expedited election | 8 | .1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | .8 | 1 | .1 | 0 | 0 |
| Regional director directed election | 748 | 9.4 | 606 | 10.7 | 50 | 8.1 | 92 | 5.6 | 20 | 7.7 |
| Board directed election | 9 | .1 | 7 | .1 | 1 | .2 | 1 | .1 | 0 | 0 |
| By withdrawal, total | 2,368 | 29.7 | 1,562 | 27.4 | 262 | 42.6 | 544 | 33.0 | 99 | 38.2 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,192 | 15.0 | 622 | 10.8 | 185 | 30.1 | 385 | 23.3 | 95 | 36.7 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,120 | 14.0 | 887 | 15.6 | 76 | 12.3 | 157 | 9.5 | 4 | 1.5 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 11 | .1 | 10 | .2 | 1 | .2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| After regional director decision and direction of election | 38 | .5 | 37 | .7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .1 | 0 | 0 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 7 | .1 | 6 | .1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .1 | 0 | 0 |
| By dismissal, total | 557 | 7.1 | 208 | 3.7 | 106 | 17.3 | 243 | 14.7 | 30 | 11.6 |
| Before notice of hearing | 295 | 3.7 | 71 | 1.2 | 62 | 10.1 | 162 | 9.8 | 24 | 9.3 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 100 | 1.3 | 45 | .8 | 18 | 2.9 | 37 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 28 | .4 | 9 | .2 | 9 | 1.5 | 10 | .6 | 0 | 0 |
| By regional director's decision | 130 | 1.6 | 79 | 1.4 | 17 | 2.8 | 34 | 2.1 | 6 | 2.3 |
| By Board decision | 4 | .1 | 4 | .1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
108 of 108 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 296. Decimal points: in this 1-bit scan the period in every Percent cell has dropped out, so the page literally shows "100 0", "63 2", "2 3" and bare digits such as "1", "9", "6". I restored the decimal point as a scanning/typesetting artifact (like the "8, 044" comma case): "100 0" -> "100.0", and a lone digit -> ".1", ".9" etc., matching the report's convention of printing sub-1-percent values without a leading zero. This is confirmed arithmetically: within every one of the five case groups the component percents sum exactly to their subtotal and the three subtotals sum to 100.0 (e.g. All cases 63.2 + 29.7 + 7.1 = 100.0; consent-election detail 1.1 + 1.1 + .1 = 2.3). If a strictly literal rendering is wanted, read each Percent cell with the point removed. Column structure: 11 columns - stub plus Number/Percent pairs under All cases, RC cases, RM cases, RD cases, UD cases. A heavier rule separates the RD and UD panels, but UD is a further pair of columns of the same table, not a second panel of repeated rows. "After" (between "Certification issued, total" and "Consent election") is a section line carrying a label and no values; its cells are empty in the image. Every Number column was cross-checked and is internally consistent: group details sum to their subtotals (e.g. 177 + 4,085 + 8 + 748 + 9 = 5,027) and 5,027 + 2,368 + 557 = 7,952, with the same holding for RC, RM, RD and UD. No misprints found. A stray ink dot sits in the stub to the right of "Certification issued, total" - a leftover leader dot, not a footnote marker. The caption carries footnote marker 1; the footnote text itself is transcribed and has no terminal period as printed.
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.