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Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1985

printed as Table 1 · source page 155 · nlrb1985_p0155_t0

TotalIdentification of filing party
TotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsIndividualsEmployers
All cases
Pending October 1, 198420,4378,0362,2745421,0956,6141,876
Received fiscal 198541,17513,1134,4588681,87017,1483,718
On docket fiscal 198561,61221,1496,7321,4102,96523,7625,594
Closed fiscal 198542,32813,6544,6778601,85517,6113,671
Pending September 30, 198519,2847,4952,0555501,1106,1511,923
Unfair labor practice cases
Pending October 1, 198417,6556,8201,8254588726,0931,587
Received fiscal 198532,6859,7752,6656851,35015,2442,966
On docket fiscal 198550,34016,5954,4901,1432,22221,3374,553
Closed fiscal 198533,94610,3762,9556721,32115,7252,947
Pending September 30, 198516,3946,2691,5354719015,6121,606
Representation cases
Pending October 1, 19842,5711,18244182204460202
Received fiscal 19857,8843,2261,7621754781,657586
On docket fiscal 198510,4554,4082,2032576822,117788
Closed fiscal 19857,8073,2181,6931804881,655573
Pending September 30, 19852,6481,19051077194462215
Union-shop deauthorization cases
Pending October 1, 19846060
Received fiscal 1985245245
On docket fiscal 1985305305
Closed fiscal 1985228228
Pending September 30, 19857777
Amendment of certification cases
Pending October 1, 19847300400
Received fiscal 1985291533602
On docket fiscal 19853618331002
Closed fiscal 1985241322502
Pending September 30, 198512511500
Unit clarification cases
Pending October 1, 1984144318215187
Received fiscal 198533297285362164
On docket fiscal 1985476128367513251
Closed fiscal 198532397276413149
Pending September 30, 19851533191100102

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  1. 1 See Glossary of terms for definitions. Advisory Opinion (AO) cases not included. See Table 22.
  2. 2 See Table 1A for totals by types of cases.
  3. 3 See Table 1B for totals by types of cases.
  4. * Revised, reflects lower figures than reported pending Sept. 30, 1984, in last year's annual report. Revised totals result from post-report adjustments to last year's "on docket" and/or "closed" figures.

168 of 175 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Closed fiscal 1985', column 2: prints 33,946, columns 3 to 8 add to 33,996.

Reader’s notes

p. 155. Grid is 8 columns: stub, Total, and the six "Identification of filing party" columns. The six centered section labels ("All cases", "Unfair labor practice cases^2", "Representation cases^3", "Union-shop deauthorization cases", "Amendment of certification cases", "Unit clarification cases") are printed as banner lines spanning the table; they are given as label-only rows. The asterisk is printed immediately BEFORE each "Pending October 1, 1984" Total figure (*20,437, *17,655, *2,571, *60, *7, *144); per convention it is transcribed after the value as ^*. DOUBTFUL CELL: "Unfair labor practice cases" / "Closed fiscal 1985" / AFL-CIO unions. I read the glyphs as 10,376 and transcribed them as read, but three independent checks all imply the printed figure is 10,326: (a) the row sums to 33,996 against the printed row total of 33,946; (b) on docket 16,595 minus closed gives 6,219 against the printed pending Sept. 30 figure of 6,269; (c) the AFL-CIO closed figures for the five case types sum to 13,704 against the 13,654 printed in the "All cases" panel. The third digit is likely a 2 blurred by the image downscale rather than a misprint; a reader should verify that cell against the original page. Every other cell checks out: all section rows cross-foot to their Total column, on docket minus closed equals pending in every column, and the five case-type panels sum to the "All cases" panel in all seven columns. In the Union-shop deauthorization panel the five filing-party columns other than Individuals hold dash rules (---), recorded as "". Amendment-of-certification and Unit-clarification cells that print a true zero are kept as 0. Footnote sentences on this page have very faint or dropped terminal periods in the scan; they are written out with normal sentence periods.

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Source page 155 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 155.

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.