NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1986 › Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1986
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | UD cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total, all | 7,532 | 100.0 | 5,262 | 100.0 | 593 | 100.0 | 1,677 | 100.0 | 228 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 4,692 | 62.3 | 3,586 | 68.1 | 211 | 35.6 | 895 | 53.4 | 124 | 54.4 |
| After | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 120 | 1.6 | 70 | 1.3 | 3 | 0.5 | 47 | 2.8 | 11 | 4.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 57 | 0.8 | 29 | 0.6 | 2 | 0.3 | 26 | 1.6 | 11 | 4.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 61 | 0.8 | 39 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.2 | 21 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 2 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated election | 3,759 | 49.9 | 2,883 | 54.8 | 162 | 27.3 | 714 | 42.6 | 85 | 37.3 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,132 | 15.0 | 758 | 14.4 | 60 | 10.1 | 314 | 18.7 | 70 | 30.7 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 2,597 | 34.5 | 2,099 | 39.9 | 102 | 17.2 | 396 | 23.6 | 15 | 6.6 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 30 | 0.4 | 26 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Expedited election | 7 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed election | 786 | 10.4 | 617 | 11.7 | 41 | 6.9 | 128 | 7.6 | 28 | 12.3 |
| Board-directed election | 20 | 0.3 | 15 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By withdrawal, total | 2,156 | 28.6 | 1,410 | 26.8 | 233 | 39.3 | 513 | 30.6 | 77 | 33.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 912 | 12.1 | 426 | 8.1 | 159 | 26.8 | 327 | 19.5 | 71 | 31.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,048 | 13.9 | 824 | 15.7 | 63 | 10.6 | 161 | 9.6 | 5 | 2.2 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 64 | 0.8 | 54 | 1.0 | 3 | 0.5 | 7 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.4 |
| After Regional Director's decision and direction of election | 131 | 1.7 | 106 | 2.0 | 7 | 1.2 | 18 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By dismissal, total | 684 | 9.1 | 266 | 5.1 | 149 | 25.1 | 269 | 16.0 | 27 | 11.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 266 | 3.5 | 46 | 0.9 | 57 | 9.6 | 163 | 9.7 | 24 | 10.5 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 77 | 1.0 | 32 | 0.6 | 9 | 1.5 | 36 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 9 | 0.1 | 5 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Regional Director's decision | 164 | 2.2 | 117 | 2.2 | 22 | 3.7 | 25 | 1.5 | 3 | 1.3 |
| By Board decision | 168 | 2.2 | 66 | 1.3 | 59 | 9.9 | 43 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
109 of 109 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 248. Decimal points in the Percent columns are not resolved by this 1-bit scan: the figures print as, e.g., "100 0", "62 3", "0 5". They are unambiguously one-decimal percentages (every value reproduces the corresponding Number / column total), so they are transcribed with decimal points ("100.0", "62.3", "0.5"). Terminal periods after the row labels and after the footnote sentence are likewise not visible in the scan. The row "After" is a label-only lead-in line introducing the indented method rows beneath it (Consent election, Stipulated election, Expedited election, Regional Director-directed election, Board-directed election); its value cells are empty in the image. Indentation is not preserved in the stub: under "Consent election", "Stipulated election" and under each of the three "total" rows, the "Before notice of hearing" / "After notice of hearing, before hearing closed" / "After hearing closed, before decision" lines are sub-items of the row above them, and the same label text therefore recurs several times. The footnote marker 1 printed in the caption ("...Fiscal Year 1986 1") is omitted with the caption. A stray ink mark sits in the left margin beside the "Stipulated election" row; it is not a footnote marker and is not transcribed. Verification: all column and section sums as printed are internally consistent (e.g. 4,692 + 2,156 + 684 = 7,532; 5,262 + 593 + 1,677 = 7,532), and every percentage matches its number divided by the column total. No suspected misprints.
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.