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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1988
| 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 | 7,110 | 100.0 | 5,451 | 100.0 | 395 | 100.0 | 1,264 | 100.0 | 156 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 4,351 | 61.2 | 3,495 | 64.1 | 160 | 40.5 | 696 | 55.1 | 84 | 53.8 |
| After: | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 75 | 1.1 | 53 | 1.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 21 | 1.7 | 5 | 3.2 |
| Before notice of hearing | 31 | 0.4 | 21 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 10 | 0.8 | 5 | 3.2 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 43 | 0.6 | 31 | 0.6 | 1 | 0.3 | 11 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated election | 3,573 | 50.3 | 2,870 | 52.7 | 127 | 32.2 | 576 | 45.6 | 45 | 28.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,164 | 16.4 | 826 | 15.2 | 65 | 16.5 | 273 | 21.6 | 43 | 27.6 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 2,392 | 33.6 | 2,031 | 37.3 | 60 | 15.2 | 301 | 23.8 | 2 | 1.3 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 17 | 0.2 | 13 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.5 | 2 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Expedited election | 12 | 0.2 | 7 | 0.1 | 5 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed election | 688 | 9.7 | 563 | 10.3 | 27 | 6.8 | 98 | 7.8 | 34 | 21.8 |
| Board-directed election | 3 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By withdrawal, total | 2,276 | 32.0 | 1,731 | 31.8 | 176 | 44.6 | 369 | 29.2 | 65 | 41.7 |
| Before notice of hearing | 983 | 13.8 | 661 | 12.1 | 93 | 23.5 | 229 | 18.1 | 60 | 38.5 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,136 | 16.0 | 937 | 17.2 | 72 | 18.2 | 127 | 10.0 | 4 | 2.6 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 53 | 0.7 | 42 | 0.8 | 7 | 1.8 | 4 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After Regional Director's decision and direction of election | 100 | 1.4 | 88 | 1.6 | 3 | 0.8 | 9 | 0.7 | 1 | 0.6 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 4 | 0.1 | 3 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By dismissal, total | 483 | 6.8 | 225 | 4.1 | 59 | 14.9 | 199 | 15.7 | 7 | 4.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 238 | 3.3 | 60 | 1.1 | 35 | 8.9 | 143 | 11.3 | 6 | 3.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 108 | 1.5 | 49 | 0.9 | 15 | 3.8 | 44 | 3.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Regional Director's decision | 117 | 1.6 | 99 | 1.8 | 7 | 1.8 | 11 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Board decision | 19 | 0.3 | 16 | 0.3 | 2 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.6 |
- 1 See Glossary of terms for definitions.
107 of 107 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 224. Eleven columns: stub plus Number/Percent pairs for All R, RC, RM, RD and UD cases. The stub heading "Method and stage of disposition" spans both heading levels. In this scan many decimal points in the Percent columns failed to print and appear as a blank gap (e.g. "40 5" in Certification issued, total / RM Percent; "53 8" in the same row's UD Percent; "1 0", "0 4", "0 0", "15 2", "21 8", "44 6", "29 2", "23 5", "38 5", "17 2", "1 8", "1 6", "4 1", "15 7", "0 9", "0 1" elsewhere). These are dropped points, not spaces in the typesetting, so they are transcribed with the decimal point restored; every one is confirmed by recomputing the percentage from the printed Number and the corresponding column total. All Number columns reconcile: the three method totals (Certification issued, By withdrawal, By dismissal) sum to "Total, all" in each of the five Number columns, and each method's component rows sum to its total, so the digits are well supported. "After:" is a section line carrying a label and no values; the indented "Before notice of hearing / After notice of hearing, before hearing closed / After hearing closed, before decision" triplets belong to the Consent election and Stipulated election blocks above them. The caption carries footnote marker 1 (excluded from the grid per instructions); footnote 1 is printed below the table.
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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.