NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1985 › Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 1985
| Total | Identification of filing party | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Individuals | Employers | |
| All cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 20,437 | 8,036 | 2,274 | 542 | 1,095 | 6,614 | 1,876 |
| Received fiscal 1985 | 41,175 | 13,113 | 4,458 | 868 | 1,870 | 17,148 | 3,718 |
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 61,612 | 21,149 | 6,732 | 1,410 | 2,965 | 23,762 | 5,594 |
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 42,328 | 13,654 | 4,677 | 860 | 1,855 | 17,611 | 3,671 |
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 19,284 | 7,495 | 2,055 | 550 | 1,110 | 6,151 | 1,923 |
| Unfair labor practice cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 17,655 | 6,820 | 1,825 | 458 | 872 | 6,093 | 1,587 |
| Received fiscal 1985 | 32,685 | 9,775 | 2,665 | 685 | 1,350 | 15,244 | 2,966 |
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 50,340 | 16,595 | 4,490 | 1,143 | 2,222 | 21,337 | 4,553 |
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 33,946 | 10,376 | 2,955 | 672 | 1,321 | 15,725 | 2,947 |
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 16,394 | 6,269 | 1,535 | 471 | 901 | 5,612 | 1,606 |
| Representation cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 2,571 | 1,182 | 441 | 82 | 204 | 460 | 202 |
| Received fiscal 1985 | 7,884 | 3,226 | 1,762 | 175 | 478 | 1,657 | 586 |
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 10,455 | 4,408 | 2,203 | 257 | 682 | 2,117 | 788 |
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 7,807 | 3,218 | 1,693 | 180 | 488 | 1,655 | 573 |
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 2,648 | 1,190 | 510 | 77 | 194 | 462 | 215 |
| Union-shop deauthorization cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 60 | 60 | |||||
| Received fiscal 1985 | 245 | 245 | |||||
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 305 | 305 | |||||
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 228 | 228 | |||||
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 77 | 77 | |||||
| Amendment of certification cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Received fiscal 1985 | 29 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 36 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 2 |
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 24 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 |
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Unit clarification cases | |||||||
| Pending October 1, 1984 | 144 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 87 |
| Received fiscal 1985 | 332 | 97 | 28 | 5 | 36 | 2 | 164 |
| On docket fiscal 1985 | 476 | 128 | 36 | 7 | 51 | 3 | 251 |
| Closed fiscal 1985 | 323 | 97 | 27 | 6 | 41 | 3 | 149 |
| Pending September 30, 1985 | 153 | 31 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 102 |
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.
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.
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.