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Final Outcome of Representation Elections in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1985

printed as Table 13 · source pages 188–190 · nlrb1985_p0188_t0

Stitched from pp. 188–190.

Participating unionsTotal electionsElections won by unionsElections in which no representative chosenEmployees eligible to voteIn elections where no representative chosen
Participating unionsTotal electionsPercent wonTotal wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsElections in which no representative chosenTotalIn elections wonIn units won byIn elections where no representative chosen
Participating unionsTotal electionsPercent wonTotal wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsElections in which no representative chosenTotalIn elections wonAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsIn elections where no representative chosen
A. All representation elections
AFL-CIO2,65140.31,0691,0691,582165,30555,00955,009110,296
Teamsters1,36536.650050086546,92412,98912,98933,935
Other national unions10147.54848536,5051,9331,9334,572
Other local unions24954.213513511411,7665,0555,0556,711
1-union elections4,36640.11,7521,069500481352,614230,50074,98655,00912,9891,9335,055155,514
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO5972.94343166,0332,5362,5363,497
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters7187.362441893,9032,8847512,1331,019
AFL-CIO v. National1782.41410433,6082,5188401,6781,090
AFL-CIO v. Local4593.342202235,1534,5742,1292,445579
Teamsters v. National560.0321248034333013137
Teamsters v. Local1681.31385362845339459175
Teamsters v. Teamsters30.000312100121
National v. Local475.031212422124217030
Local v. Local2286.4191932,3972,2642,264133
2-union elections24282.2199117286484322,56515,7846,2562,8571,7334,9386,781
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO v. Teamsters366.722019081441440764
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local1100.010010656500650
AFL-CIO v. Local v. Local2100.0202018218201820
3 (or more)-union elections683.35200311,15539114400247764
Total representation elections4,61442.41,9561,188528541862,658254,22091,16161,40915,8463,66610,240163,059
B. Elections in RC cases
AFL-CIO1,97146.19089081,063134,01444,02344,02389,991
Teamsters1,06541.644344362239,82311,26311,26328,560
Other national unions7848.73838405,2521,1031,1034,149
Other local unions19961.3122122779,6954,6744,6745,021
1-union elections3,31345.61,511908443381221,802188,78461,06344,02311,2631,1034,674127,721
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO5574.54141145,8892,4212,4213,468
AFL-CIO v Teamsters6687.958431583,6062,6626282,034944
AFL-CIO v National1681.31310333,1112,0218401,1811,090
AFL-CIO v Local4292.939192034,7744,1951,8762,319579
Teamsters v National560.0321248034333013137
Teamsters v Local1376.91082360242739433175
Teamsters v Teamsters30.000312100121
National v Local475.031212422124217030
Local v Local2286.4191932,3972,2642,264133
2-union elections22682.3186113255434021,22214,5455,7652,7581,2364,7866,677
AFL-CIO v AFL-CIO v Teamsters366.722019081441440764
AFL-CIO v Teamsters v Local1100.010010656500650
AFL-CIO v Local v Local2100.0202018218201820
3 (or more)-union elections683.35200311,15539114400247764
Total RC elections3,54548.01,7021,023468431681,843211,16175,99949,93214,0212,3399,707135,162
C. Elections in RM cases
AFL-CIO13517.824241114,4081,2271,2273,181
Teamsters5322.6121241894253253641
Other national unions520.011442634534581
Other local unions944.44452667373193
1-union elections20220.3412412141615,9941,8981,227253345734,096
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters2100.02110176176123530
2-union elections2100.021100017617612353000
Total RM elections20421.1432513141616,1702,0741,350306345734,096
D. Elections in RD cases
AFL-CIO54525.113713740826,8839,7599,75917,124
Teamsters24718.245452026,2071,4731,4734,734
Other national unions1850.0999827485485342
Other local unions4122.099321,8053083081,497
1-union elections85123.5200137459965135,72212,0259,7591,47348530823,697
AFL-CIO v. AFL-CIO450.022214411511529
AFL-CIO v. Teamsters366.720211214604675
AFL-CIO v. National1100.0101049749704970
AFL-CIO v. Local3100.031203793792531260
Teamsters v. Local3100.0303026260260
2-union elections1478.611321531,1671,06336846497152104
Total RD elections86524.421114047101465436,88913,08810,1271,51998246023,801

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  1. 1 See Glossary of terms for definitions.
  2. 2 Includes each unit in which a choice regarding collective-bargaining agent was made, for example, there may have been more than one election in a single case, or several cases may have been involved in one election unit.

554 of 554 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 188. 16 printed columns. Column 8 ("Elections in which no representative chosen") and column 15 ("In elections where no representative chosen") are tall single headings spanning all three heading levels; "Total" and "In elections won" under "Employees eligible to vote" span the second and third levels. Periods are not resolved anywhere in the small table type of this scan: every cell of the "Percent won" column prints as e.g. "40 3", "100 0", with no visible decimal point, although the values are unambiguously one-decimal percentages (1,069/2,651 = 40.3, etc.). I have restored the decimal points. For the same reason the period cannot be seen after the section letter "A" or after the "v" in the two- and three-union row labels; I have written "A." and "v." on the publication's convention, but only the letters themselves are legible. Cells holding an em-dash rule ("——", meaning none) are given as "". Printed zeros are kept as 0. All internal arithmetic checks out as transcribed: each subtotal row equals the sum of its member rows, the union-breakdown columns sum to "Total won" and to "In elections won" in every row, and "Total elections" = "Total won" + "Elections in which no representative chosen". No misprints detected. The crop ends immediately below the "Total representation elections" row, so only section "A. All representation elections" is present; any further sections of Table 13 continue on a later page. Footnote markers 1 (on the caption) and 2 (on the "Total elections" heading) are referenced but their footnote texts fall outside the crop, so `footnotes` is empty. In the "AFL-CIO v. Teamsters v. Local" row the figure 1 in the "Total won" column is printed with a serif that makes it resemble a lowercase l; it is the digit 1 (row total 1 = 1 won + 0 no representative).

p. 189. 16 columns. Panel B only; this crop is a "—Continued" page, so panel A and any earlier panels are on the preceding page, and no footnote texts are printed on this crop (the markers 1, on the caption, and 2, on "Total elections", refer to notes printed elsewhere). Decimal points: in the "Percent won" column the printed decimal point is a very small dot that is largely lost in this 1-bit scan, so the cells read visually as "46 1", "100 0", etc. I transcribed them as decimals ("46.1", "100.0"). This is confirmed arithmetically: in every row the value equals total won / total elections x 100 to one decimal place (e.g. 908/1,971 = 46.1; 13/16 = 81.3; 1,702/3,545 = 48.0). Section line: the centered panel head renders as "B Elections in RC cases"; the period after "B" is faint/dropped in the scan and I restored it as "B. Elections in RC cases" for consistency with the series' panel labels. The label is the only content of that row. Dash rules ("———") used as the "none" symbol are transcribed as "" throughout; printed zeros are kept as "0" (e.g. Teamsters v Teamsters, and the 0s in the three-union rows). Verification: every subtotal and the grand total reconcile down all 15 numeric columns — 1-union elections, 2-union elections, 3 (or more)-union elections, and Total RC elections (3,313 + 226 + 6 = 3,545; 188,784 + 21,222 + 1,155 = 211,161; 61,063 + 14,545 + 391 = 75,999; 127,721 + 6,677 + 764 = 135,162). Row-internal splits also check (e.g. AFL-CIO v Teamsters: 43 + 15 = 58 and 628 + 2,034 = 2,662). No misprints found. Minor OCR artifacts in the image that are not part of the text: dotless "i" in several labels/headings ("1-unıon elections", "unıons") and a stray mark above the "Total won" heading; both read normally.

p. 190. The crop is a continuation page: it carries the full column headings but only sections C and D of the table (sections A and B are on the preceding page). 16 columns: stub plus 15 data columns. Punctuation lost to the scan: periods are barely visible throughout this page. In the "Percent won" column the values are printed as decimals (e.g. "17 8", "100 0") and are transcribed with the decimal point restored (17.8, 100.0); every one of them is consistent with the won/total ratio in the same row, which confirms the reading. Likewise the section labels read "C Elections in RM cases" / "D Elections in RD cases" and the versus rows read "AFL-CIO v Teamsters"; I have written them with the conventional period after the letter and after "v", but the dots themselves are not legible in the scan. Em-dash rules ("----") marking "not applicable" are transcribed as empty cells, as instructed; printed zeros are kept as 0. Note the resulting mix in the 2-union blocks, where some cells are dashes and others are explicit 0s, exactly as printed. All row and column totals check out arithmetically (1-union + 2-union = Total for both RM and RD, and the component columns sum to the "Total won", "Total" and "In elections won" columns), so no misprints are suspected. Minor stray ink: a small tick above the "Teamsters" column in the AFL-CIO row of section C, and a small mark before the "2-union elections" label in section C; both are scan artifacts, not footnote markers. Footnote 2's marker is attached to the "Total elections" column heading.

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Source page 188 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 188.
Source page 189 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 189.
Source page 190 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 190.

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.