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Litigation for Enforcement and/or Review of Board Orders, Fiscal Year 1989; and Cumulative Totals, Fiscal Years 1936-1989
| Fiscal Year 1989 | July 5, 1935–Sept. 30, 1989 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of proceedings | Percentages | July 5, 1935–Sept. 30, 1989 | |||||||||
| Total | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Vs. employers only | Vs. unions only | Vs. both employers and unions | Board dismissal | Number | Percent | |
| Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals | 204 | 178 | 23 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| On petitions for review and/or enforcement | 180 | 162 | 15 | 0 | 3 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 9,838 | 100.0 | |
| Board orders affirmed in full | 140 | 127 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 78.4 | 66.7 | 100.0 | 6,413 | 65.2 | |
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 20.0 | 0.0 | 1,384 | 14.1 | |
| Remanded to Board | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.9 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 484 | 4.9 | |
| Board orders partially affirmed and partially remanded | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2.5 | 13.3 | 0.0 | 186 | 1.9 | |
| Board orders set aside | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1,371 | 13.9 | |
| On petitions for contempt | 24 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | ||||
| Compliance after filing of petition, before court order | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 12.5 | ||||
| Court orders holding respondent in contempt | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 75.0 | 62.5 | ||||
| Court orders denying petition | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 0.0 | ||||
| Court orders directing compliance without contempt adjudication | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6.3 | 25.0 | ||||
| Contempt petitions withdrawn without compliance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||||
| Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 247 | 100.0 | ||||
| Board orders affirmed in full | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 59.9 | ||||
| Board orders affirmed with modification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7.3 | ||||
| Board orders set aside | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 17.4 | ||||
| Remanded to Board | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 7.7 | ||||
| Remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6.5 | ||||
| Board's request for remand or modification of enforcement order denied | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases remanded to court of appeals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
| Contempt cases enforced | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.4 | ||||
- 1 "Proceedings" are comparable to "cases" reported in annual reports prior to fiscal 1964. This term more accurately describes the data inasmuch as a single "proceeding" often includes more
42 of 51 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 256. Column structure: 11 data columns — 5 under "Number of proceedings^1" and 4 under "Percentages" (both inside "Fiscal Year 1989"), plus "Number" and "Percent" under "July 5, 1935–Sept. 30, 1989". The stub column carries no printed heading, so cell 0 of each header row is empty. All cells printed as a long dash rule ("——"), used throughout the percentage columns and the cumulative columns for non-applicable entries, are transcribed as "". Faint/dropped decimal points in this scan: the printed glyphs read "0 0" for "Remanded to Board" / Percentages-Board dismissal, "100 0" for "On petitions for contempt" / Percentages-Vs. unions only, and "12 5" for "Compliance after filing of petition, before court order" / Percentages-Vs. unions only. In each case the surrounding column formatting and the arithmetic make the intended values 0.0, 100.0 and 12.5, so they are transcribed with the decimal point. The footnote block is cut off by the bottom edge of the crop: only the first line and a partial second line of footnote 1 are visible, and the sentence ends mid-clause ("often includes more"). Footnotes 2 (marker on the "Board dismissal" heading) and 3 (marker on "Proceedings decided by U.S. Supreme Court") are referenced in the table but are not visible on this image. Row 1 ("Proceedings decided by U.S. courts of appeals") is a total line for the two "On petitions..." blocks; it shows counts only, with dashes in every percentage and cumulative column, as printed. No arithmetic discrepancies were detected in the printed counts, cumulative figures or percentage columns.
Source image
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.