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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1984

printed as Table 16 · source pages 235–237 · nlrb1984_p0235_t0

Stitched from pp. 235–237.

Industrial groupTotal electionsNumber of elections in which representation rights were won by unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castValid votes cast for unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Industrial groupTotal electionsTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Food and kindred products1645732211310714,70212,9386,4424,0391,110121,2816,4964,306
Tobacco manufacturers200000219218864640001240
Textile mill products35137501224,9394,4932,1601,7563480562,3331,327
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials35117310244,0943,7631,5631,08134751302,200723
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)963527602616,5765,9552,5762,2102627973,3792,023
Furniture and fixtures41139301282,6042,4311,07786110061101,354740
Paper and allied products59159402444,2783,9261,4841,05723801892,442761
Printing, publishing, and allied products13239223014935,2464,7621,9481,19121945342,8141,776
Chemicals and allied products893119606584,3734,1092,0111,21239104082,0981,842
Petroleum refining and related industries143120011634584177902905840780
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products792921512504,6324,2851,7621,32929837982,5231,254
Leather and leather products1831002151,5111,36665514880316111711254
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products7431181003432,6552,3951,18571322602461,210994
Primary metal industries11352341224617,1966,5622,8972,136462232763,6651,897
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)17564489341119,1738,4573,7762,830596992514,6813,283
Machinery (except electrical)1906540160912511,10810,2844,5543,610579173485,7303,411
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies712919802425,8025,2952,5462,1034310122,7492,780
Aircraft and parts84382313024613,86812,3527,8992,9304,61303564,4538,761
Ship and boat building and repairing1284031419,96418,01816,94513,94536902,8741,07318,553
Automotive and other transportation equipment1042200664460327112115000332227
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods, watches and clocks361510302211,8371,641834653150031807653
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries156703720310866,5405,7742,8571,796567374572,9172,716
Manufacturing1,68562539015114701,060132,568120,18165,68345,87511,2326537,92354,49858,361
Metal mining9202007159153542623509932
Coal mining24144082102,3622,1701,4444910871827261,691
Oil and gas extraction15110001467156895887004735
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)9523004356326262232300064277
Mining57227582353,5483,2171,85583760876821,3622,005
Construction2171038214521144,5433,9221,9831,58727884341,9392,063
Wholesale trade39213247725826014,23612,9765,5762,8562,051616087,4004,201
Retail trade5132041296111330916,26414,0896,2504,0031,506776647,8395,897
Finance, insurance, and real estate683120524371,5971,4496694288057104780486
U.S. Postal Service0000000000000000
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation522010811322,3191,88885458321912401,034780
Motor freight transportation and warehousing211771157361345,5324,8252,2903831,674531802,5352,482
Water transportation22125241104213741711268325203267
Other transportation241446131083671937127152444348615
Communication1386957615693,5383,1681,6941,42838341941,4741,867
Electric, gas, and sanitary services652616811392,4912,2471,031664181331531,216656
Transportation, communication, and other utilities51221810387111729415,13713,2216,4113,4552,1721686166,8106,667
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places913229012595,1224,2531,7841,3551411271612,4691,472
Personal services592619502331,2931,119624339199086495641
Automotive repair, services, and garages7336132111371,3411,187605313241438582520
Motion pictures1188000315013890900004892
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)3493303252,8412,2951,3372586861,0059581,420
Health services38621715915113216933,28028,74113,5069,3151,7955551,84115,23512,870
Educational services362292110142,9392,5531,323707102844301,2301,308
Membership organizations21159204647040424011342085164279
Business services1841056016920797,2055,8073,0901,7565372195782,7173,676
Miscellaneous repair services2574201181,9451,7597501226356231,009139
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens0000000000000000
Legal services101070030236177139105003438236
Social services462919208173,7892,6271,79258917591,0198352,850
Miscellaneous services105210256285863362439084250408
Services98652134169238846561,23951,64625,61615,3053,3721,6055,33426,03025,911
Public administration65120213803222783165018244328
Total, all industrial groups4,4361,8611,120466692062,575249,512221,023114,32174,37720,8163,58115,547106,702105,919

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  1. 1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Statistical Policy Division, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C., 1972

804 of 804 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 235. Crop is the first page of a multi-page table: it ends mid-body after "Oil and gas extraction" (that row sits on the bottom edge but is fully legible), so the mining/non-manufacturing section and any footnote text continue on the following page. The stub heading carries a superscript 1 reference mark, but no footnote text is printed on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. The "Manufacturing" row is an indented subtotal set off by rules above and below; it is transcribed with its printed label only. Doubtful cell resolved: "Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products" / "Valid votes cast for unions: Total" scans as either 1,752 or 1,762 (middle digit is thick). I transcribed 1,762 because three independent arithmetic checks agree on it: its four components (1,329+298+37+98), the identity 4,285 − 2,523, and the column total 65,683 less the other 21 rows. Flagging it since this is the one cell where my reading leaned on arithmetic rather than purely on the glyph. All other cells were verified: every data row satisfies the component-sum, election-sum and vote-sum identities, and all 16 numeric columns sum exactly to the printed "Manufacturing" subtotal. No misprints found. The AFL-CIO headings are printed with an en dash ("AFL–CIO"); transcribed with a plain hyphen.

p. 236. 17 columns: stub, "Total elections", five columns under "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions", three tall columns ("Number of elections in which no representative was chosen", "Number of employees eligible to vote", "Total valid votes cast"), five columns under "Valid votes cast for unions", then "Total votes for no union" and "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The page is a "—Continued" sheet, so the table runs on past the bottom of the crop (the last row shown, "Miscellaneous repair services", sits at the image edge) and no footnote text is printed on this image; the superscript 1 marker on the stub heading "Industrial group" refers to a note that appears elsewhere. Rule lines group the body into blocks that are continued from the preceding page. Two rows are indented summary lines rather than ordinary industry rows: "Mining" (a group total, set off by rules above and below, and much larger than the "Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)" row printed above it) and "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" (the total of the six transportation/utility rows above it — verified: 52+211+22+24+138+65 = 512, and every other column of that line also sums exactly). Their labels are transcribed as printed, without the indentation. "U.S. Postal Service": the scan renders the abbreviation with the periods very faint, reading close to "U S Postal Service"; transcribed with periods as the standard printed form. Its entire row is printed zeros. Consistency checks pass throughout: in every row, elections won + elections with no representative = total elections, the four union sub-columns sum to the union total, union votes + votes for no union = total valid votes cast, and the four vote sub-columns sum to the union vote total. No printed value appears to be a misprint. No illegible cells; the dotless-i appearance of some labels ("Mining", "Electric", "Communication") is a scan artifact of the typeface, not an alternate spelling.

p. 237. This is the final page of Table 16 (a "—Continued" page), so the body begins mid-list: the detailed service-industry rows preceding "Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens" appear on earlier pages, and the "Services" line is the subtotal closing that section (set off by a rule). Column headings are reprinted in full on this page, so they are transcribed here. Punctuation in the footnote is partly eaten by the scan: after "Source" and in "D C ," the periods/colon are faint or absent in the image; I have rendered them as the conventional "Source:" and "D.C.," — the wording itself is legible and certain. All internal arithmetic checks out as printed: for every row the four union components sum to the "Total" in both the elections block and the valid-votes block, and Total-won + no-representative = Total elections, and union votes + no-union votes = total valid votes cast. No misprints detected. Minor rendering notes: the scan's typeface renders many dotted "i" characters faintly (e.g. "Industrial", "unions"), but no value digits are ambiguous. Row labels are indented in the original for "Services", "Public administration" and "Total, all industrial groups"; indentation is not reproduced in the cell text.

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Source page 235 of NLRB FY1984 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1984, p. 235.
Source page 236 of NLRB FY1984 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1984, p. 236.
Source page 237 of NLRB FY1984 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1984, p. 237.

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.