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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1989

printed as Table 16 · source pages 249–251 · nlrb1989_p0249_t0

Stitched from pp. 249–251.

Industrial groupTotal electionsNumber of elections in which representation rights were won by unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castValid votes cast for unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Industrial groupTotal electionsTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Food and kindred products2039740471910616,64514,5347,4284,0382,1031491,1387,1067,179
Tobacco manufacturers211000127727211336770015967
Textile mill products33135413206,3656,0032,3491,98621095583,654863
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials22115204113,6163,3241,6631,33310202281,6611,837
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)703121703396,5975,9812,9222,188532521503,0592,773
Furniture and fixtures40149500263,9783,6181,6271,1194920161,991917
Paper and allied products512420301273,7773,5901,7601,51811651211,8301,708
Printing, publishing, and allied products1125638909564,9944,5902,2461,33549604152,3442,434
Chemicals and allied products652016202457,9487,3673,0411,9091,01321174,3261,265
Petroleum refining and related industries29169502131,4921,3616413581488127720807
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products671918100489,0768,4263,1882,2848380665,2381,092
Leather and leather products106510047466763453113400331520
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products10043152008575,3694,9252,6229851,031435632,3032,282
Primary metal industries102443110215810,1449,3184,1223,411552114455,1962,656
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)15260421143929,6728,7183,9442,7728001142584,7743,881
Machinery (except electrical)13960441402799,7049,0573,8583,42930432935,1992,453
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies753021603458,0247,2523,0622,587321371174,1902,057
Aircraft and parts743727910379,4678,9404,2263,624376861404,7143,779
Ship and boat building and repairing157510187,4836,2975,8095,773190174886,855
Automotive and other transportation equipment11651005975866382379300484439
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments; photographic, medical, and optical goods; watches and clocks361611302202,9492,7671,3019132930951,466916
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries792923402507,1156,2342,5322,02335101583,7021,203
Manufacturing1,487640411165955847136,413124,11659,18144,31110,2117373,92264,93547,983
Metal mining112110091,4681,39139134893401,00021
Coal mining135005086616182631402481355125
Oil and gas extraction4330001747137370003431
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)14642008939894371198411320523198
Mining42168350263,1422,9741,0625975041411,912375
Construction500291254283620914,57910,2396,0485,275582371544,1917,868
Wholesale trade35614262693821418,49616,4927,1963,6462,7481486549,2965,620
Retail trade3921531053701123914,05712,2215,7043,2821,403181,0016,5175,203
Finance, insurance, and real estate714539402262,9192,6891,4081,294810331,2811,470
U.S. Postal Service0000000000000000
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation8449271723355,6464,6582,6201,631821541142,0383,674
Motor freight transportation and warehousing306132149981117410,7169,3034,6669073,0533064004,6374,917
Water transportation1010010932229910541064019438
Other transportation5522111001333,3592,9451,4648185600861,4811,441
Communication1003835102622,6302,335869752874261,466621
Electric, gas, and sanitary services11651401001656,3335,8252,2681,7624220843,5571,184
Transportation, communication, and other utilities671293127137111837829,00625,36511,9925,9114,94342871013,37311,875
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places703429311364,6763,9501,9251,614126149362,0252,037
Personal services4825101401231,4141,229654316302036575749
Automotive repair, services, and garages8237171802451,8731,6888603933950728281,012
Motion pictures167600196394941891040085305123
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)341814121161,9161,492601409981777891610
Health services2961571051093313927,94322,91012,5037,0511,0102,2152,22710,40714,767
Educational services32179404154,6914,1742,1281,9311250722,0464,050
Membership organizations1511600541911569765003259136
Business services1951148016810816,9785,6193,0082,0195241662992,6113,612
Miscellaneous repair services217520014657622256227280136688
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens4330001170153742252007945
Legal services6540011545126220042538
Social services533024501232,8602,3281,4551,1832500228731,866
Miscellaneous services74310034544272257115220202119
Services87946931574206041054,51645,29324,00115,4273,0622,5492,96321,29229,252
Public administration151073005647545356160164032189391
Total, all industrial groups4,4132,0591,328520511602,354273,775239,934116,94879,90323,2444,3319,470122,986110,037

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  1. 1 Source: Standard Industrial Classification, Statistical Policy Division, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C., 1972.

795 of 795 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 249. The crop shows 17 columns: the stub, "Total elections", the five-column group "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions", three tall single columns, the five-column group "Valid votes cast for unions", and two further tall single columns. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the table continues past "Oil and gas extraction" (the last printed row sits on the cut edge, though all of its digits are legible). No footnote text appears on this crop, so `footnotes` is empty even though the stub heading carries a raised 1 ("Industrial group^1"); the note itself must be printed further down the table. Arithmetic check (not applied to any cell, only used to gauge reliability): every one of the 16 numeric columns sums across the 22 manufacturing industry rows to exactly the printed "Manufacturing" subtotal, and within each row the four union breakdowns add to the printed "Total" for both the elections-won group and the valid-votes group, and union votes plus no-union votes equal total valid votes cast. No discrepancies found. In the "Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments; ..." row there is a small isolated dot printed just to the left of the value 16 in the elections-won "Total" column; it appears to be a stray speck or a surviving leader dot, not a digit or a footnote marker, so the cell is transcribed as 16. Scan artifacts degrade a few row labels (e.g. "Primary metal industries" and "Printing, publishing, and allied products" render with broken serifs); these are transcribed with the standard SIC wording that the glyphs support.

p. 250. 17 columns. This is a continuation page: the first row ("Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)") is the tail of the mining section begun on the previous page, and the crop is cut off at the bottom edge — the "Miscellaneous repair services" row sits flush against the bottom rule and the table almost certainly continues (a services subtotal and further divisions are not shown). No footnote text is printed within the crop, although the stub heading carries a raised 1 marker ("Industrial group^1"); that footnote's text falls outside this crop. Heading wording: the spanner over columns 3-7 is printed as "Number of elections m which representation rights were won by unions" — the "m" is a scan artifact of "in", transcribed as "in". Row structure: the "Mining" row (row 2) and the "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" row (row 14) are indented summary/subtotal lines set off by horizontal rules, not ordinary data rows; both are transcribed in place as printed. The "U.S. Postal Service" row is printed as all zeros. Arithmetic verification: every row is internally consistent (total elections = elections won + elections with no representative; the four union categories sum to the union subtotal in both the election block and the vote block; union votes + no-union votes = total valid votes cast), and the "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" subtotal row equals the sum of its six member rows in all 16 numeric columns. No misprints detected.

p. 251. The image is a landscape table printed sideways (rotated 90 degrees); column headings are legible and are printed on this page, so they are transcribed. The crop is the final portion of a longer table that continues from earlier pages: the first body row shown, "Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens", is a continuation of the Services division, whose subtotal row "Services" appears below it after a rule; rows for earlier industrial divisions are not on this crop. Rules also set off "Public administration" and the "Total, all industrial groups" line. All printed values are internally consistent: for every row the four union columns sum to the "Total" of their group, union-won plus no-representative elections equal total elections, and valid votes for unions plus votes for no union equal total valid votes cast. A small caret-like mark appears over the leader dots at the end of the "Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens" label; it is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker, and is not transcribed. The AFL-CIO headings are set with an en-dash-like rule ("AFL–CIO"); transcribed as "AFL-CIO".

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Source page 249 of NLRB FY1989 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1989, p. 249.
Source page 250 of NLRB FY1989 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1989, p. 250.
Source page 251 of NLRB FY1989 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1989, p. 251.

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.