NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1985 › Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1985
Stitched from pp. 203–205.
| Industrial group | Total elections | Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Valid votes cast for unions | Total votes for no union | Eligible employees in units choosing representation | ||||||||
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| Industrial group | Total elections | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Total votes for no union | Eligible employees in units choosing representation |
| Food and kindred products | 177 | 70 | 38 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 107 | 13,721 | 12,352 | 5,649 | 3,857 | 1,684 | 1 | 107 | 6,703 | 5,223 |
| Tobacco manufacturers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Textile mill products | 43 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 6,474 | 5,873 | 2,407 | 2,272 | 103 | 0 | 32 | 3,466 | 1,408 |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials | 29 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 3,264 | 2,968 | 1,644 | 1,068 | 409 | 0 | 167 | 1,324 | 1,923 |
| Lumber and wood products (except furniture) | 96 | 31 | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 5,714 | 5,192 | 2,128 | 1,771 | 290 | 17 | 50 | 3,064 | 1,458 |
| Furniture and fixtures | 58 | 24 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 4,269 | 3,811 | 1,825 | 1,623 | 194 | 8 | 0 | 1,986 | 1,467 |
| Paper and allied products | 61 | 25 | 21 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 4,476 | 4,117 | 1,909 | 1,306 | 261 | 133 | 209 | 2,208 | 1,717 |
| Printing, publishing, and allied products | 124 | 51 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 73 | 4,965 | 4,462 | 2,043 | 1,020 | 548 | 8 | 467 | 2,419 | 1,934 |
| Chemicals and allied products | 81 | 29 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 52 | 4,313 | 3,839 | 1,622 | 1,218 | 281 | 22 | 101 | 2,217 | 1,311 |
| Petroleum refining and related industries | 19 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1,085 | 997 | 439 | 386 | 42 | 11 | 0 | 558 | 241 |
| Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products | 75 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 56 | 7,593 | 6,826 | 2,801 | 2,337 | 364 | 0 | 100 | 4,025 | 1,388 |
| Leather and leather products | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2,071 | 1,837 | 1,041 | 840 | 0 | 0 | 201 | 796 | 1,499 |
| Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products | 71 | 33 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 3,979 | 3,592 | 1,520 | 1,260 | 219 | 19 | 22 | 2,072 | 1,411 |
| Primary metal industries | 111 | 45 | 31 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 66 | 6,572 | 5,855 | 2,447 | 1,889 | 382 | 64 | 112 | 3,408 | 2,138 |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment) | 168 | 55 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 113 | 12,109 | 11,214 | 4,813 | 3,473 | 819 | 272 | 249 | 6,401 | 2,954 |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 188 | 74 | 54 | 15 | 1 | 4 | 114 | 13,478 | 12,345 | 5,615 | 4,091 | 896 | 138 | 490 | 6,730 | 4,575 |
| Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies | 81 | 27 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 54 | 8,787 | 7,808 | 3,195 | 2,405 | 449 | 243 | 98 | 4,613 | 1,714 |
| Aircraft and parts | 105 | 42 | 35 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 63 | 10,679 | 9,557 | 4,277 | 3,874 | 229 | 6 | 168 | 5,280 | 2,453 |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 15 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 1,785 | 1,661 | 708 | 622 | 29 | 13 | 44 | 953 | 641 |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 11 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1,791 | 1,666 | 457 | 266 | 191 | 0 | 0 | 1,209 | 15 |
| Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods, watches and clocks | 26 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 1,681 | 1,493 | 707 | 454 | 143 | 27 | 83 | 786 | 432 |
| Miscellaneous manufacturing industries | 178 | 69 | 34 | 22 | 1 | 12 | 109 | 9,269 | 8,275 | 3,932 | 2,401 | 782 | 32 | 717 | 4,343 | 3,920 |
| Manufacturing | 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 |
| Metal mining | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 782 | 741 | 131 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 610 | 0 |
| Coal mining | 17 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 1,228 | 1,148 | 439 | 7 | 15 | 401 | 16 | 709 | 444 |
| Oil and gas extraction | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 681 | 601 | 499 | 227 | 272 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 565 |
| Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels) | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 187 | 175 | 53 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 122 | 28 |
| Mining | 38 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 2,878 | 2,665 | 1,122 | 401 | 288 | 401 | 32 | 1,543 | 1,037 |
| Construction | 198 | 76 | 57 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 122 | 4,391 | 3,759 | 1,643 | 1,226 | 305 | 10 | 102 | 2,116 | 1,365 |
| Wholesale trade | 430 | 186 | 82 | 92 | 6 | 6 | 244 | 15,180 | 13,317 | 5,926 | 3,022 | 2,368 | 137 | 399 | 7,391 | 4,917 |
| Retail trade | 550 | 203 | 139 | 54 | 2 | 8 | 347 | 19,617 | 16,677 | 7,475 | 5,347 | 1,496 | 78 | 554 | 9,202 | 6,557 |
| Finance, insurance, and real estate | 78 | 46 | 30 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 3,529 | 3,250 | 1,524 | 932 | 323 | 5 | 264 | 1,726 | 1,043 |
| U.S. Postal Service | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 270 | 233 | 166 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 121 | 67 | 156 |
| Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation | 46 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 27 | 2,485 | 2,083 | 1,044 | 418 | 436 | 0 | 190 | 1,039 | 937 |
| Motor freight transportation and warehousing | 300 | 116 | 12 | 93 | 3 | 8 | 184 | 8,542 | 7,703 | 3,269 | 501 | 2,397 | 109 | 262 | 4,434 | 2,508 |
| Water transportation | 14 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 239 | 206 | 120 | 93 | 5 | 19 | 3 | 86 | 143 |
| Other transportation | 33 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 1,166 | 1,028 | 378 | 224 | 132 | 8 | 14 | 650 | 159 |
| Communication | 114 | 46 | 40 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 2,958 | 2,720 | 1,163 | 974 | 155 | 30 | 4 | 1,557 | 957 |
| Electric, gas, and sanitary services | 81 | 32 | 19 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 49 | 3,630 | 3,380 | 1,505 | 1,139 | 321 | 45 | 0 | 1,875 | 873 |
| Transportation, communication, and other utilities | 588 | 234 | 82 | 131 | 6 | 15 | 354 | 19,020 | 17,120 | 7,479 | 3,349 | 3,446 | 211 | 473 | 9,641 | 5,577 |
| Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places | 77 | 34 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 43 | 5,716 | 4,880 | 2,011 | 1,685 | 143 | 2 | 181 | 2,869 | 2,070 |
| Personal services | 46 | 17 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 29 | 1,109 | 983 | 430 | 165 | 127 | 0 | 138 | 553 | 452 |
| Automotive repair, services, and garages | 85 | 36 | 14 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 49 | 1,453 | 1,303 | 634 | 300 | 327 | 0 | 7 | 669 | 632 |
| Motion pictures | 10 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 291 | 228 | 128 | 128 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 140 |
| Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures) | 43 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 1,457 | 1,127 | 498 | 210 | 200 | 4 | 84 | 629 | 603 |
| Health services | 356 | 197 | 139 | 14 | 11 | 33 | 159 | 36,049 | 30,140 | 15,372 | 10,822 | 1,217 | 1,413 | 1,920 | 14,768 | 17,853 |
| Educational services | 29 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 2,908 | 2,498 | 1,291 | 1,030 | 56 | 0 | 205 | 1,207 | 2,257 |
| Membership organizations | 21 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 580 | 480 | 275 | 171 | 1 | 24 | 79 | 205 | 310 |
| Business services | 247 | 157 | 105 | 18 | 4 | 30 | 90 | 8,714 | 7,242 | 4,323 | 2,652 | 538 | 222 | 911 | 2,919 | 5,092 |
| Miscellaneous repair services | 24 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 506 | 443 | 227 | 148 | 61 | 18 | 0 | 216 | 241 |
| Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 169 | 156 | 70 | 54 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 86 | 0 |
| Legal services | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 206 | 165 | 113 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 52 | 149 |
| Social services | 42 | 18 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 1,591 | 1,250 | 658 | 424 | 70 | 17 | 147 | 592 | 723 |
| Miscellaneous services | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 65 | 59 | 31 | 10 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 28 | 12 |
| Services | 992 | 530 | 352 | 70 | 20 | 88 | 462 | 60,814 | 50,954 | 26,061 | 17,842 | 2,756 | 1,705 | 3,758 | 24,893 | 30,534 |
| Public administration | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 446 | 401 | 140 | 53 | 73 | 4 | 10 | 261 | 153 |
| Total, all industrial groups | 4,614 | 1,956 | 1,188 | 528 | 54 | 186 | 2,658 | 254,220 | 224,116 | 102,715 | 70,650 | 19,370 | 3,565 | 9,130 | 121,401 | 91,161 |
803 of 803 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
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).
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.