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Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1987

printed as Table 3B · source pages 206–207 · nlrb1987_p0206_t0

Stitched from pp. 206–207.

Types of formal actions takenCases in which formal actions takenFormal actions taken by type of case
Types of formal actions takenCases in which formal actions takenTotal formal actions takenRCRMRDUD
Hearings completed, total1,2421,192931721894
Initial hearings1,0511,026805631584
Hearings on objections and/or challenges1911661269310
Decisions issued, total1,0361,0077905716022
By Regional Directors9399167285013822
Elections directed8228006393812322
Dismissals on record1171168912150
By Board9791627220
Transferred by Regional Directors for initial decision232210480
Elections directed111000
Dismissals on record22219480
Review of Regional Directors' decisions:
Requests for review received49949644811370
Withdrawn before request ruled upon000000
Board action on request ruled upon, total34032928013360
Granted635848280
Denied27526923011280
Remanded222000
Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review1098010
Board decision after review, total7469523140
Regional Directors' decisions:
Affirmed363325260
Modified212115150
Reversed171512030
Outcome:
Election directed515039380
Dismissals on record231913060
Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total9919418003410711
By Regional Directors2652412079258
By Board72670059325823
In stipulated elections67365255223774
No exceptions to Regional Directors' reports45343538513374
Exceptions to Regional Directors' reports22021716710400
In directed elections (after transfer by Regional Director)504538250
Review of Regional Directors' supplemental decisions:
Request for review received1521481334110
Withdrawn before request ruled upon222000
Board action on request ruled upon, total1581421284101
Granted212119110
Denied135119107391
Remanded222000
Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review000000
Board decision after review, total333000
Regional Directors' decisions:
Affirmed111000
Modified111000
Reversed111000

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  1. 1 See Glossary of terms for definitions.

182 of 193 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 206. Seven columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken" (a tall heading spanning both header levels), then five columns under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" (Total formal actions taken, RC, RM, RD, UD). The caption carries a footnote marker 1 ("Fiscal Year 1987^1"), but no footnote text is printed inside this crop; the image ends at the table's bottom rule, so footnote 1 is presumably below the crop. `footnotes` is therefore empty. Scan quality is poor (heavy, broken type) but the digits are legible. Doubtful cells, all read as stated: - "Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review", RC column: the glyph is smudged; read as 8 (consistent with 9 = 8 + 0 + 1 in the Total column). - "Transferred by Regional Directors for initial decision" and "Dismissals on record" (the row under it), RD column: the 8s are blotted and could be misread as other round digits; read as 8 in both. - "Elections directed" (first row under "Transferred by Regional Directors..."), stub-adjacent "Cases in which..." column: the glyph prints like a lowercase l; read as 1. - "Reversed", RM column, and "Dismissals on record" (last row), RM column: filled-in glyphs read as 0. - Several zeros in the UD column print as a slightly open ring; all read as 0. The label in the "Regional Directors' decisions" section line ends in a mark that images as a raised dot rather than a clean colon; given the parallel "Outcome:" line below it, it is transcribed as a colon. It is not a footnote marker. Stray ink specks sit in the left margin and beside the "UD" heading and a few RM cells; these are scanner noise, not footnote markers, and have been dropped. Nothing was computed or corrected; a few column sums do not add exactly as printed (e.g. "Hearings completed, total": 931 + 72 + 189 + 4 = 1,196 vs the printed Total of 1,192), and these are transcribed exactly as printed.

p. 207. This is a continuation page of Table 3B, so no footnote markers appear on body values; the only marker on the page (superscript 1) is attached to the omitted caption and its footnote text is retained in `footnotes`. Column structure: a double vertical rule separates the UD column from RC/RM/RD, and the "Total formal actions taken" column equals RC+RM+RD only (UD excluded). This holds in every data row, e.g. the top row 800+34+107 = 941 with UD = 11 outside the total. The spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" is printed across all five of those columns including UD. The stub column of this page is heavily indented to show hierarchy; indentation is not reproduced in the cells. "Review of Regional Directors' supplemental decisions:" and "Regional Directors' decisions:" are label-only section lines with no printed values. Internal arithmetic checks out throughout (265+726 = 991; 21+135+2 = 158; 1+1+1 = 3), with one exception worth flagging: under "By Board" (726 / 700 / 593 / 25 / 82 / 3) the two sub-lines "In stipulated elections" (673) and "In directed elections..." (50) sum to 723, not 726, in the first column; the corresponding sums in the other columns are likewise 697 vs 700, 590 vs 593, 25 vs 25, 82 vs 82, 4 vs 3. These are transcribed exactly as printed; the discrepancy may be due to a category not broken out on the page rather than a misreading. Scan quality is good but speckled; stray ink dots sit beside several values (e.g. a dot left of "435" in the "No exceptions..." row and left of the "0" in the RM column of the "Affirmed" row). These are page noise, not footnote markers or digits, and were not transcribed. No cell was illegible and no part of the table appears cut off by the crop.

Source image

Source page 206 of NLRB FY1987 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1987, p. 206.
Source page 207 of NLRB FY1987 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1987, p. 207.

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.