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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1986

printed as Table 16 · source pages 273–275 · nlrb1986_p0273_t0

Stitched from pp. 273–275.

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 products1846935310311515,68614,2256,1353,6582,064383758,0903,943
Tobacco manufacturers1110000998800019
Textile mill products2484400163,2702,8851,7581,11218554561,1271,651
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials271081011713,23912,1024,6864,48527126487,4161,219
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)914028903516,2185,1332,1431,71624501822,9901,698
Furniture and fixtures642415621405,8925,3362,6252,19035851262,7112,460
Paper and allied products602718900332,8562,6101,2128463140521,3981,106
Printing, publishing, and allied products1053924627664,9994,6082,2631,3455381482322,3452,052
Chemicals and allied products9241291101514,4084,1341,9391,6732060602,1952,149
Petroleum refining and related industries1952201141,2071,1225071372160154615338
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products10338306206510,2729,4013,8243,03563196625,5772,511
Leather and leather products147400371,4951,33857444302129764533
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products9836221301625,0394,6802,0351,51336701552,6451,953
Primary metal industries1085945716497,0506,5523,4092,752219154233,1432,972
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)1888061123410811,81210,7895,0474,327470881625,7423,862
Machinery (except electrical)160685011169212,92711,8844,7813,851533213767,1032,661
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies10036276126412,19711,1505,5584,87750694815,5924,198
Aircraft and parts9544291203518,2547,4613,6782,946570371253,7834,119
Ship and boat building and repairing103300073,4572,5371,1401,11900211,3972,267
Automotive and other transportation equipment167610097797123342488600378202
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods watches and clocks35107102252,6802,5161,21982157153261,297739
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries164643119591007,2356,5092,7881,682713823113,7212,243
Manufacturing1,75871647916717531,042140,981127,69357,66344,7848,3058183,75670,03044,885
Metal mining82200061,3111,2025404500900662105
Coal mining145103191,1851,091362183011960729162
Oil and gas extraction72110053032851019470018491
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)732100428725198962001538
Mining36126231243,0862,8291,1018239209601,728366
Construction19989729351104,3463,7661,9051,632113381221,8612,321
Wholesale trade38614153842224513,03311,5095,0442,5121,8522734076,4654,583
Retail trade5011761006231132517,89515,3606,3774,2901,568614588,9835,747
Finance, insurance, and real estate835542715282,9622,5061,3641,084128131391,1422,003
U S Postal Service1100100333003003
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation5334151612192,6182,0431,197529511171408461,841
Motor freight transportation and warehousing2731031282541706,7395,9192,8845141,8942172593,0352,888
Water transportation16540101157244918714120260262152
Other transportation29122910171,4851,411605458127200806164
Communication963936102571,8801,74679274724912954738
Electric, gas, and sanitary services893524821543,4343,2371,728982221502231,5091,388
Transportation, communication, and other utilities5562289311610932816,72814,8057,3933,3712,7977914347,4127,171
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places733224305414,6903,7931,7821,394178591512,0111,661
Personal services582413803342,0251,807949532351066858954
Automotive repair, services, and garages7341182102321,2151,096574213346015522631
Motion pictures10540015364293158156002135105
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)341211010221,5821,367528381112521839726
Health services3731901431552718336,17830,83714,92710,6481,0011,1112,16715,91013,311
Educational services392013124192,1921,9129616712185184951727
Membership organizations23157107841036724814313092119277
Business services2071237820619847,7226,3633,8022,4105892745292,5614,609
Miscellaneous repair services17633001138333010570350022575
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens111000029292726001229
Legal services6640020251216151114003765251
Social services644734535172,6522,2671,18291672431511,0851,309
Miscellaneous services135202183783121317403522181150
Services99152735577197646460,07150,98925,52517,7482,6071,7323,43825,46424,815
Public administration96402031341138647039027105
Total, all industrial groups4,5201,9511,204524611622,569259,239229,573106,46176,29117,3793,9778,814123,11291,999

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

812 of 812 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 273. The crop cuts the table off after "Oil and gas extraction"; the table continues below (further mining/nonmanufacturing groups and the grand total are not on this image). The stub heading carries footnote marker 1 ("Industrial group^1"), but the footnote text itself is below the crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Typesetting spaces inside numbers were closed up per instructions: "1 219" -> "1,219" (Apparel row, Eligible employees in units choosing representation), "5 558" -> "5,558" (Electrical and electronic machinery row, Valid votes cast for unions - Total), "1 042" -> "1,042" (Manufacturing row, Number of elections in which no representative was chosen). In the row label "Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments, photographic, medical, and optical goods watches and clocks" there is a wide gap after "goods" where a comma appears to have dropped out in printing; transcribed as printed, without a comma. Arithmetic cross-checks: every column of the 22 manufacturing detail rows sums exactly to the printed "Manufacturing" subtotal, and within each row the four union breakdown columns sum to the row's union totals, so the digits and column assignments are internally consistent. No printed value appears to be a misprint.

p. 274. This is a continuation page ("—Continued") of Table 16; column headings are reprinted here, so they are transcribed. The table continues past the bottom of the crop: "Miscellaneous repair services" is the last fully printed line visible, and the remaining service-industry rows plus any totals and the footnote text (the marker "1" on "Industrial group" has no printed footnote on this crop) fall below the crop. Row structure: rows 2 ("Mining") and 14 ("Transportation, communication, and other utilities") are indented summary/subtotal lines set off by rules; the subtotal line for the transportation group is verified by addition over the six preceding rows (all 16 columns add exactly). Row 1 ("Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)") is a component of the Mining group whose earlier components appear on the preceding page. Doubtful cells: in "U S Postal Service" the periods of the abbreviation are not resolvable in the scan (it is almost certainly "U.S. Postal Service" in the original print); transcribed as the characters that are legible. In "Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation", the "Valid votes cast for unions / Total" cell is printed with a broken first "1" and reads as 1,197; the row's internal arithmetic (529+511+17+140 = 1,197 and 1,197+846 = 2,043) confirms it. In "Electric, gas, and sanitary services" the last cell prints with an l-shaped "1" and is 1,388 (confirmed by the 7,171 subtotal). Every data row's internal arithmetic checks out (total elections = won + no representative; union total = sum of four union types; valid votes for unions + votes for no union = total valid votes), so no misprints are suspected on this page.

p. 275. This crop is the final portion of Table 16, continued from the previous page; the four detail rows at the top (Museums... through Miscellaneous services) belong to the Services group whose subtotal row follows them, and the earlier industry detail rows are on the preceding page. The column headings are printed on this page and are transcribed above. 17 columns: stub, Total elections, five columns under \"Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions\", three tall single columns, five columns under \"Valid votes cast for unions\", then Total votes for no union and Eligible employees in units choosing representation. In the \"Total, all industrial groups\" row the \"Number of elections in which no representative was chosen\" cell is printed as \"2 569\" (space instead of a comma); transcribed as 2,569. The \"Services\" and \"Public administration\" subtotal rows and the grand-total row are indented in the original but their labels are given as printed. All row and column sums check out internally (e.g. 1,204+524+61+162=1,951; 1,951+2,569=4,520; 106,461+123,112=229,573), so no misprints are suspected. The footnote's punctuation (colon after \"Source\" and the periods in \"D.C.\") is faint/broken in the scan; the wording is certain.

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Source page 273 of NLRB FY1986 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1986, p. 273.
Source page 274 of NLRB FY1986 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1986, p. 274.
Source page 275 of NLRB FY1986 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1986, p. 275.

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.