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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1989
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Number of polls | Employees involved (number eligible to vote) | Valid votes cast | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total eligible | In polls | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for deauthorization | ||||||
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total eligible | Resulting in deauthorization | Resulting in continued authorization | Total | Percent of total eligible | Cast for deauthorization | |||
| Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract | Total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total eligible | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Total | Percent of total eligible | Number | Percent of total eligible |
| Total | 84 | 41 | 48.8 | 43 | 51.2 | 5,287 | 1,815 | 34.3 | 3,472 | 65.7 | 4,286 | 81.1 | 1,553 | 29.4 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 57 | 30 | 52.6 | 27 | 47.4 | 3,973 | 1,431 | 36.0 | 2,542 | 64.0 | 3,253 | 81.9 | 1,203 | 30.3 |
| Teamsters | 18 | 9 | 50.0 | 9 | 50.0 | 637 | 174 | 27.3 | 463 | 72.7 | 564 | 88.5 | 144 | 22.6 |
| Other national unions | 3 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 100.0 | 145 | 0 | 0.0 | 145 | 100.0 | 79 | 54.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Other local unions | 6 | 2 | 33.3 | 4 | 66.7 | 532 | 210 | 39.5 | 322 | 60.5 | 390 | 73.3 | 206 | 38.7 |
- 1 Sec. 8(a)(3) of the Act requires that to revoke a union-shop agreement a majority of the employees eligible to vote must vote in favor of deauthorization.
37 of 37 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 233. 15 columns: stub plus 5 under "Number of polls", 5 under "Employees involved (number eligible to vote)", and 4 under "Valid votes cast". The headings nest four deep only in the "Employees involved" block (In polls -> Resulting in deauthorization / Resulting in continued authorization -> Number / Percent of total); the shallower headings of the other blocks are repeated downward to fill the four header levels. A stray comma- or apostrophe-like speck is printed in the upper part of the stub column, above the stub heading; it is page dirt, not a footnote marker, and is omitted. The row label printed "AFL-CIO unions" uses an en-dash-like rule between AFL and CIO; transcribed as a hyphen. All printed totals and column sums are internally consistent (e.g. 41+43=84; 3,973+637+145+532=5,287); no misprints detected. All cells legible.
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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.