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Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1988

printed as Table 3B · source pages 205–206 · nlrb1988_p0205_t0

Stitched from pp. 205–206.

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, total1,2511,185944761654
Initial hearings1,041988797621294
Hearings on objections and/or challenges21019714714360
Decisions issued, total9889337803911419
By Regional Directors9218697283310819
Elections directed812761638269718
Dismissals on record109108907111
By Board676452660
Transferred by Regional Directors for initial decision201917110
Elections directed161513110
Dismissals on record444000
Review of Regional Directors' decisions:
Requests for review received29926822416282
Withdrawn before request ruled upon665010
Board action on request ruled upon, total21719716212231
Granted292823141
Denied18716813811190
Remanded111000
Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review000000
Board decision after review, total474535550
Regional Directors' decisions:
Affirmed343225520
Modified444000
Reversed996030
Outcome:
Election directed313022530
Dismissals on record161513020
Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total1,3191,2219626519415
By Regional Directors602580435371084
By Board717641527288611
In stipulated elections663595489258111
No exceptions to Regional Directors' reports41339534213403
Exceptions to Regional Directors' reports25020014712418
In directed elections (after transfer by Regional Director)544638350
Review of Regional Directors' supplemental decisions:
Request for review received2121931745140
Withdrawn before request ruled upon333000
Board action on request ruled upon, total20419616717121
Granted262623120
Denied1761681431691
Remanded221010
Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review000000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.

186 of 197 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 205. Seven columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", then four columns of actual counts under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" plus its "Total formal actions taken" column. A heavy double rule separates the UD column from RD, and the "Total formal actions taken" column consistently equals RC+RM+RD only, excluding UD (e.g. first row 944+76+165 = 1,185, with UD 4 outside the total; 224+16+28 = 268 for "Requests for review received", UD 2 outside). This is as printed, not an error introduced here — it confirms the column assignment. The caption carries footnote marker 1, but no footnote text appears within this crop; it presumably sits below the cropped area or on the facing page, so `footnotes` is empty. The trailing punctuation on the two unnumbered section lines "Regional Directors' decisions" and "Outcome" is faint in the scan — each reads as a single dot at this resolution, but in context (matching "Review of Regional Directors' decisions:") they are almost certainly colons, which is how I transcribed them. Scanner noise renders several "i" dots faintly ("hearmgs", "decisions", "withdrawn") in the stub; I transcribed the intended words. The last body row ("Dismissals on record", 16/15/13/0/2/0) is followed by a rule, and the table may continue beyond this page.

p. 206. Crop is a continuation page ("—Continued" in the caption), so the body begins mid-table; headings are reprinted on this page and are transcribed above. Seven printed columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", then the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" over Total / RC / RM / RD / UD. Arithmetic observations (values transcribed exactly as printed, nothing corrected): the "Total formal actions taken" column consistently equals RC + RM + RD and excludes the UD column throughout, e.g. the first row 962 + 65 + 194 = 1,221 while adding UD 15 would give 1,236; likewise "Board action on request ruled upon, total" 167 + 17 + 12 = 196 with UD 1 excluded. The vertical sums within the "Cases in which formal actions taken" and "Total formal actions taken" columns all check out (602 + 717 = 1,319; 580 + 641 = 1,221; 663 + 54 = 717; 413 + 250 = 663; 26 + 168 + 2 = 196). The section label printed as "Regional Directors' decisions" is followed by a small raised dot that is almost certainly a poorly inked colon (matching "Review of Regional Directors' supplemental decisions:" above); transcribed as a colon. Scattered ink specks appear above the spanner heading "Formal actions taken by type of case", above the RD cell of "Board action on request ruled upon, total" (12), and in the margins; these are page noise, not footnote markers, and were not transcribed.

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Source page 205 of NLRB FY1988 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1988, p. 205.
Source page 206 of NLRB FY1988 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1988, p. 206.

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.