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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1985

printed as Table 16 · source pages 203–205 · nlrb1985_p0203_t0

Stitched from pp. 203–205.

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 products1777038300210713,72112,3525,6493,8571,68411076,7035,223
Tobacco manufacturers0000000000000000
Textile mill products431813203256,4745,8732,4072,2721030323,4661,408
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials29159303143,2642,9681,6441,06840901671,3241,923
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)963124511655,7145,1922,1281,77129017503,0641,458
Furniture and fixtures582417700344,2693,8111,8251,623194801,9861,467
Paper and allied products612521400364,4764,1171,9091,3062611332092,2081,717
Printing, publishing, and allied products12451297015734,9654,4622,0431,02054884672,4191,934
Chemicals and allied products8129161111524,3133,8391,6221,218281221012,2171,311
Petroleum refining and related industries1996210101,08599743938642110558241
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products751912601567,5936,8262,8012,33736401004,0251,388
Leather and leather products116500152,0711,8371,041840002017961,499
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products7133181113383,9793,5921,5201,26021919222,0721,411
Primary metal industries11145311121666,5725,8552,4471,889382641123,4082,138
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)1685543101111312,10911,2144,8133,4738192722496,4012,954
Machinery (except electrical)1887454151411413,47812,3455,6154,0918961384906,7304,575
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies812720313548,7877,8083,1952,405449243984,6131,714
Aircraft and parts10542354036310,6799,5574,2773,87422961685,2802,453
Ship and boat building and repairing156400291,7851,661708622291344953641
Automotive and other transportation equipment112200091,7911,666457266191001,20915
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods, watches and clocks26129210141,6811,4937074541432783786432
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries1786934221121099,2698,2753,9322,401782327174,3433,920
Manufacturing1,72866244015511561,066128,075115,74051,17938,4338,3151,0143,41764,56139,822
Metal mining40000047827411311310006100
Coal mining1760150111,2281,14843971540116709444
Oil and gas extraction831200568160149922727200102565
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)93300061871755336101612228
Mining38124350262,8782,6651,122401288401321,5431,037
Construction198765711261224,3913,7591,6431,226305101022,1161,365
Wholesale trade43018682926624415,18013,3175,9263,0222,3681373997,3914,917
Retail trade550203139542834719,61716,6777,4755,3471,496785549,2026,557
Finance, insurance, and real estate7846301015323,5293,2501,52493232352641,7261,043
U.S. Postal Service2100011270233166450012167156
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation461931204272,4852,0831,04441843601901,039937
Motor freight transportation and warehousing3001161293381848,5427,7033,2695012,3971092624,4342,508
Water transportation1485021623920612093519386143
Other transportation33133802201,1661,028378224132814650159
Communication1144640600682,9582,7201,1639741553041,557957
Electric, gas, and sanitary services8132191210493,6303,3801,5051,1393214501,875873
Transportation, communication, and other utilities5882348213161535419,02017,1207,4793,3493,4462114739,6415,577
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places773426512435,7164,8802,0111,68514321812,8692,070
Personal services46179404291,1099834301651270138553452
Automotive repair, services, and garages8536142002491,4531,30363430032707669632
Motion pictures10660004291228128128000100140
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)431510311281,4571,127498210200484629603
Health services35619713914113315936,04930,14015,37210,8221,2171,4131,92014,76817,853
Educational services291712203122,9082,4981,2911,0305602051,2072,257
Membership organizations21179017458048027517112479205310
Business services24715710518430908,7147,2424,3232,6525382229112,9195,092
Miscellaneous repair services241173101350644322714861180216241
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens200000216915670540016860
Legal services543001120616511343007052149
Social services421812015241,5911,2506584247017147592723
Miscellaneous services51010046559311016502812
Services99253035270208846260,81450,95426,06117,8422,7561,7053,75824,89330,534
Public administration106221144464011405373410261153
Total, all industrial groups4,6141,9561,188528541862,658254,220224,116102,71570,65019,3703,5659,130121,40191,161

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

803 of 803 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 203. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the table continues past "Oil and gas extraction" (the nonmanufacturing industry block and its totals are not on this image), and the text of footnote 1 (marker printed on the stub heading "Industrial group") is not shown, so `footnotes` is empty. Verification: I summed the 22 industry rows above the "Manufacturing" subtotal for all 16 numeric columns; every column reconciles exactly with the printed subtotal (1,728 / 662 / 440 / 155 / 11 / 56 / 1,066 / 128,075 / 115,740 / 51,179 / 38,433 / 8,315 / 1,014 / 3,417 / 64,561 / 39,822). The three mining rows also check internally (elections won + no representative = total elections; union votes + no-union votes = total valid votes; union sub-columns sum to the union total). "Automotive and other transportation equipment", "Valid votes cast for unions / Other national unions": a stray ink dot sits just left of the digit in this cell; the value is 0 and the dot is a printing artifact, not a footnote marker or digit. "Manufacturing" is printed indented as a subtotal line; the label is transcribed as printed. The "AFL-CIO" headings are set with an en-dash-like rule between AFL and CIO; transcribed with a plain hyphen.

p. 204. Continuation page of Table 16 (the caption carries "—Continued"); column headings are reprinted here, so they are transcribed. 17 printed columns. The crop is cut at both ends of the body: rows preceding "Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)" are on the previous page, and the table continues past the last visible row, "Miscellaneous repair services", which sits flush against the bottom edge (its digits are complete and legible). No footnote text is visible on this crop, although the stub heading carries a superscript 1 marker ("Industrial group^1"). Row structure: the indented "Mining" line and the indented "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" line are division subtotals, each set off by horizontal rules; "Mining" subtotals rows that begin on the previous page. The lines "Construction", "Wholesale trade", "Retail trade", "Finance, insurance, and real estate" and "U.S. Postal Service" are printed at the same indent as those subtotals (single-group divisions). Indentation is not reproduced in the grid. "U.S. Postal Service" is transcribed with periods; the scan resolution drops small dots throughout this page (the same artifact makes "i" appear dotless in the headings), so the periods are not individually resolvable in the image but are almost certainly printed. Arithmetic check: every data row is internally consistent — the four union columns sum to the union "Total" in both the elections block and the votes block, elections won + elections with no representative equals total elections, and valid votes for unions + votes for no union equals total valid votes cast. Both subtotal rows also equal the sum of their component rows on this page (the "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" row equals the six transportation/communication/utility rows above it in all 16 numeric columns). No misprints detected.

p. 205. This crop is the final page of Table 16 ("—Continued"); the earlier industrial-group rows appear on the preceding pages. 17 columns. The four detail rows (Museums… through Miscellaneous services) are the tail of the "Services" division, whose subtotal row follows them; "Services" and "Public administration" are set off by rules as division subtotal lines and are indented in the stub. All rows are internally consistent: the four union columns sum to the adjacent "Total" in both the elections-won and valid-votes-for-unions blocks, elections won plus elections with no representative equal total elections, and votes for unions plus votes for no union equal total valid votes cast. No misprints detected. Punctuation in the footnote is faint in the scan: the colon after "Source" and the periods in "D.C.," are barely visible at this resolution but are supplied as the standard printed form; the wording itself is legible. In the "Public administration" row, "Total votes for no union" is printed with a broken final digit that renders like "26l"; it is 261 (confirmed by 140 + 261 = 401, the printed total valid votes cast).

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Source page 203 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 203.
Source page 204 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 204.
Source page 205 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 205.

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.