NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1986 › Board decisions issued by contested status and type of case
Pages shown separately: their columns differ (pp. 28, 29).
| Total Board decisions | 2,032 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Contested decisions | 1,306 | ||
| Unfair labor practice decisions | 925 | ||
| Initial (includes those based on stipulated record) | 858 | ||
| Supplemental | 16 | ||
| Backpay | 31 | ||
| Determinations in jurisdictional disputes | 20 | ||
| Representation decisions | 370 | ||
| After transfer by Regional Directors for initial decision | 18 | ||
| After review of Regional Director decisions | 56 | ||
| On objections and/or challenges | 296 | ||
| Other decisions | 11 |
| Clarification of bargaining unit | 8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment to certification | 1 | |
| Union-deauthorization | 2 | |
| Noncontested decisions | 726 | |
| Unfair labor practice | 292 | |
| Representation | 430 | |
| Other | 4 |
p. 28. The table is set as an indented breakdown list rather than a ruled table: there are no printed column headings, so header_rows is empty. Four columns were inferred from the horizontal alignment of the figures: the stub, an innermost detail column (858, 16, 31, 20, 18, 56, 296), a middle category column (925, 370, 11), and a rightmost total column (2,032, 1,306). The introductory line "A breakdown of Board decisions follows:" above the figures was treated as a caption/lead-in and omitted. The rules printed under 2,032 (double) and 1,306 (single) are typographic underscores, not data. The crop ends immediately below the "Other decisions ... 11" line and the printed detail sums only to the Contested total (858+16+31+20 = 925; 18+56+296 = 370; 925+370+11 = 1,306), while total Board decisions is 2,032, so the remaining 726 non-contested decisions are almost certainly itemized in rows that continue below this crop. Labels broken across printed lines were joined and end-of-line hyphens repaired ("jurisdic-/tional", "deci-/sion", "Di-/rector", "chal-/lenges"). All figures are legible; the scan's dotless-i appearance in words such as "decisions" and "initial" is a typeface artifact, not variant spelling.
p. 29. Continuation crop: no column headings are printed on this image, so header_rows is empty. The table has three columns — the stub, an inner (indented) value column, and an outer right-hand value column. The indented subcategory rows ("Clarification of bargaining unit", "Amendment to certification", "Union-deauthorization", "Unfair labor practice", "Representation", "Other") carry their figures in the inner column; the flush-left summary row "Noncontested decisions" carries 726 in the outer right-hand column, set in bold with a rule under it (a total line). The crop begins partway through a list of subcategories (the parent heading for the first three rows falls above the crop) and the three rows after "Noncontested decisions" are its breakdown, which may continue below the bottom of the crop. All figures are legible; no footnote markers appear.
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.