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Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1987; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936–1987
| Fiscal year 1987 | July 5, 1935–Sept. 30, 1987 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935–Sept. 30, 1987 | |||||||||
| Total | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Number | Percent | |
| Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals | 226 | 182 | 38 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcement | 199 | 164 | 29 | 0 | 6 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 9,492 | 100.0 | |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 158 | 133 | 22 | 0 | 3 | 81.1 | 75.9 | 50.0 | 6,148 | 64.8 | |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 0.0 | 1,364 | 14.4 | |
| Remanded to Board | 14 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 13.8 | 16.6 | 468 | 4.9 | |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3.0 | 3.4 | 16.7 | 179 | 1.9 | |
| Board orders set aside | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5.5 | 3.4 | 16.7 | 1,333 | 14.0 | |
| On petitions for contempt | 27 | 18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 23 | 14 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 77.8 | 100.0 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.6 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11.1 | 0.0 | ||||
| Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | 0.0 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 245 | 100.0 | ||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 147 | 60.0 | |||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7.4 | ||||
| Board orders set aside | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 42 | 17.1 | |||
| Remanded to Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7.8 | ||||
| Remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.5 | ||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
- 1 "Proceedings" are comparable to "cases" reported in annual reports prior to fiscal 1964. This term more accurately describes the data inasmuch as a single "proceeding" often includes more than one "case." See Glossary of terms for definitions.
52 of 61 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 257. The table is printed sideways on the page (text rotated 90 degrees); it has been transcribed in upright reading order: stub, then Fiscal year 1987 (Number of proceedings: Total, Vs. employers only, Vs. unions only, Vs. both employers and unions, Board dismissal^2; Percentages: Vs. employers only, Vs. unions only, Vs. both employers and unions, Board dismissal), then July 5, 1935-Sept. 30, 1987 (Number, Percent). 12 columns, 3 heading levels; the stub column has no printed heading. Many cells in the percentage and cumulative columns hold only a dash rule (not applicable) and are transcribed as "". The entire "Vs. both employers and unions" Percentages column is dash rules, as are all percentage and cumulative cells on the row "Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals", all cumulative cells in the contempt block (rows "On petitions for contempt" through "Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance"), and the "Vs. both employers and unions" / "Board dismissal" percentage cells of the Supreme Court block. Faded decimal points in the low-resolution scan: "Vs. unions only" (Percentages) at "Board orders affirmed in full" prints as "75 9" and is read as 75.9; "Vs. unions only" (Percentages) at "Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication" prints as "0 0" and is read as 0.0; "Vs. employers only" (Percentages) at "Board orders affirmed in full" in the Supreme Court block prints as "100 0" and is read as 100.0. In each case the surrounding column sums to 100.0, supporting the reading. Footnote markers: the raised digit after "Board dismissal" in the Number-of-proceedings group is read as 2 and the one after "Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court" as 3; both superscripts are blurred in the scan and were assigned by the usual 1-2-3 reading order. Only footnote 1 is printed within the crop (its second line is clipped at the crop edge); the texts of footnotes 2 and 3 are not visible on this image. As-printed values that do not round exactly: under "Vs. unions only" (Percentages), "Board orders affirmed with modification" shows 3.5 although 1 of 29 is 3.4 (the column is adjusted to total 100.0); under "Vs. employers only" (Percentages), "Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance" shows 5.5 although 1 of 18 is 5.6; under "Board dismissal" (Percentages), "Remanded to Board" shows 16.6 for 1 of 6. These are transcribed exactly as printed. All column totals otherwise check out (e.g., 182+38+0+6 = 226; 158+9+14+7+11 = 199; 6,148+1,364+468+179+1,333 = 9,492; 147+18+42+19+16+1+1+1 = 245).
Source image
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.