NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1989 › Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1989
| 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 | 7,567 | 100.0 | 6,078 | 100.0 | 312 | 100.0 | 1,177 | 100.0 | 159 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 4,491 | 59.3 | 3,711 | 61.1 | 139 | 44.6 | 641 | 54.5 | 85 | 53.5 |
| After: | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 83 | 1.1 | 62 | 1.0 | 4 | 1.3 | 17 | 1.4 | 3 | 1.9 |
| Before notice of hearing | 44 | 0.6 | 29 | 0.5 | 3 | 1.0 | 12 | 1.0 | 3 | 1.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 39 | 0.5 | 33 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.3 | 5 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated election | 3,697 | 48.9 | 3,051 | 50.2 | 104 | 33.3 | 542 | 46.0 | 57 | 35.8 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,220 | 16.1 | 889 | 14.6 | 56 | 17.9 | 275 | 23.4 | 53 | 33.3 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 2,440 | 32.2 | 2,137 | 35.2 | 44 | 14.1 | 259 | 22.0 | 4 | 2.5 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 37 | 0.5 | 25 | 0.4 | 4 | 1.3 | 8 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Expedited election | 5 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | 4 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed election | 698 | 9.2 | 589 | 9.7 | 27 | 8.7 | 82 | 7.0 | 25 | 15.7 |
| Board-directed election | 8 | 0.1 | 8 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By withdrawal, total | 2,700 | 35.7 | 2,198 | 36.2 | 118 | 37.8 | 384 | 32.6 | 62 | 39.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 1,148 | 15.2 | 849 | 14.0 | 69 | 22.1 | 230 | 19.5 | 57 | 35.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,357 | 17.9 | 1,185 | 19.5 | 38 | 12.2 | 134 | 11.4 | 5 | 3.1 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 59 | 0.8 | 40 | 0.7 | 7 | 2.2 | 12 | 1.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After Regional Director's decision and direction of election | 122 | 1.6 | 111 | 1.8 | 4 | 1.3 | 7 | 0.6 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 14 | 0.2 | 13 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By dismissal, total | 376 | 5.0 | 169 | 2.8 | 55 | 17.6 | 152 | 12.9 | 12 | 7.5 |
| Before notice of hearing | 181 | 2.4 | 48 | 0.8 | 37 | 11.9 | 96 | 8.2 | 10 | 6.3 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 68 | 0.9 | 20 | 0.3 | 9 | 2.9 | 39 | 3.3 | 2 | 1.3 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 2 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Regional Director's decision | 118 | 1.6 | 96 | 1.6 | 8 | 2.6 | 14 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Board decision | 7 | 0.1 | 4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
104 of 104 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 226. The scan is a 1-bit image in which small decimal points frequently drop out, so several percent cells print as e.g. \"61 1\", \"10\", \"13\", \"75\"; they are transcribed with the decimal point (61.1, 1.0, 1.3, 7.5) because the column is uniformly one-decimal and the values are arithmetically consistent. Specific instances: RC cases Percent on \"Certification issued, total\" (61.1); RM cases Percent on the \"Before notice of hearing\" line under Consent election (1.0) and on \"After Regional Director's decision and direction of election\" (1.3); UD cases Percent on \"By dismissal, total\" (7.5).\n\nThe value-less section line between \"Certification issued, total\" and \"Consent election\" reads \"After\" followed by a short mark that is either a colon or an em dash; it is transcribed as \"After:\" but the punctuation is not certain at this resolution.\n\nThe row label \"Total, all\" is followed immediately by leader dots; if a word such as \"cases\" was set there it is not visible.\n\nThe footnote sits at the very bottom edge of the crop and its descenders are clipped, so the exact wording (\"See Glossary of terms for definitions\" vs. a transposed variant) carries some risk; no footnote marker is visible on any row label or column heading in the cropped area, so the referent is presumably the caption, which is outside the crop.\n\nAll arithmetic in the grid is internally consistent, which corroborates the column assignment: within every case-type column the three/five stage lines sum to their group subtotal, the five election methods sum to \"Certification issued, total\", and the three group totals sum to \"Total, all\"; across columns RC + RM + RD equals All R on every row (UD is a separate series, not part of All R). Every printed percent also reproduces as the value over the relevant column total. Nothing was computed or corrected — all cells are as printed.
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.