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Industrial Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1990

printed as Table 16 · source pages 197–199 · nlrb1990_p0197_t0

Stitched from pp. 197–199.

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 products1767142240510516,96415,2506,6574,4851,891352468,5935,464
Tobacco manufacturers1000001272777000200
Textile mill products2276100153,2482,9961,2311,118105261,765624
Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and similar materials2397101146,8635,9682,5512,421410893,4171,136
Lumber and wood products (except furniture)641913600456,2775,7262,3731,9563990183,3531,428
Furniture and fixtures441813500265,1414,5401,8471,336506052,693809
Paper and allied products542316502314,5003,9291,4931,10118302092,4361,051
Printing, publishing, and allied products1004029623604,9674,6192,0831,309535332062,5361,361
Chemicals and allied products692621401432,8942,7211,4051,05724501031,3161,305
Petroleum refining and related industries1862301126415932411007806335253
Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products622316421395,8885,4722,2251,82629638653,2471,492
Leather and leather products1331101102,0891,9249126656101861,012555
Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products8532141512534,2613,8981,743963561401792,1551,035
Primary metal industries964134601558,2337,5753,5892,9735574553,9862,866
Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transportation equipment)14260517118210,1709,3964,4423,76659742374,9543,695
Machinery (except electrical)13854391302849,4898,9104,1163,380521441714,7943,276
Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment, and supplies562215313344,6714,3981,9101,3842431431402,4881,585
Aircraft and parts8631216045511,67310,8595,1834,41734104255,6764,918
Ship and boat building and repairing11651005451409145132409264112
Automotive and other transportation equipment1911731081,8361,75388283026260871649
Measuring, analyzing, and controlling instruments; photographic, medical, and optical goods; watches and clocks2586101172,5582,3529607511620471,392277
Miscellaneous manufacturing industries472115402262,3702,1761,0558681610261,121827
Manufacturing1,351531373119831820115,211105,49147,05036,8457,5134072,28558,44134,518
Metal mining722000563858827414401300314175
Coal mining1551130101,0851,02647344224016553186
Oil and gas extraction422000235434317217200017152
Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)187501111633588308134357132280206
Mining441610141282,7102,5451,227494575381381,318619
Construction434257237110917711,2538,9075,1694,53340442283,7386,562
Wholesale trade29111345586417816,96415,0046,6033,3712,6831593908,4014,581
Retail trade371173104621619820,35517,5618,1206,1971,6671021549,4417,548
Finance, insurance, and real estate713934410323,0572,7611,2429018425611,5191,009
U.S. Postal Service0000000000000000
Local and suburban transit and interurban highway passenger transportation7940221413394,3553,6861,7181,10556213381,9681,800
Motor freight transportation and warehousing318149291092916913,71412,0375,5958264,486532306,4423,511
Water transportation8220006280225555500017018
Other transportation562818622283,7133,0151,617939494138461,3981,984
Communication943934302552,4062,2091,006944210411,203856
Electric, gas, and sanitary services11946301600736,8476,0992,5871,958629003,5121,284
Transportation, communication, and other utilities67430413514851637031,31527,27112,5785,8276,19220435514,6939,453
Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other lodging places692318500464,8554,0051,4931,018470052,5121,154
Personal services6125111103361,7041,45393754623501565161,103
Automotive repair, services, and garages7533151800422,0851,7789163355650168621,013
Motion pictures11531016560510211658260429978
Amusement and recreation services (except motion pictures)351914302161,11892063652086525284785
Health services36720814617133215936,59530,12415,54110,8369761,6172,11214,58316,093
Educational services312012017111,4891,17873846117382224401,050
Membership organizations22179404561148531519658061170345
Business services19411370171412817,4565,9513,5291,8403487915502,4225,020
Miscellaneous repair services291447031578168232770212045355373
Museums, art galleries, botanical and zoological gardens1000001191850500130
Legal services10980101352309244230012265341
Social services453325413122,1241,6571,04680518015466111,763
Miscellaneous services167610094613701156428230255129
Services96652634188306744060,21049,44026,05316,9863,2622,5613,24423,38729,247
Public administration86330023102621561332300106252
Total, all industrial groups4,2101,9651,282494551342,245261,385229,242108,19875,28721,8854,2316,795121,04493,789

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

794 of 794 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 197. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the table continues past the last transcribed row ("Coal mining"), and the body of footnote 1 (marker on the stub heading "Industrial group") is not visible on this image, so `footnotes` is empty. The "Manufacturing" row is a subtotal, set off by horizontal rules above and below; the two mining rows that follow begin the next (non-manufacturing) section, whose section heading is not printed on this crop. Arithmetic check: all 16 numeric columns of the 22 manufacturing detail rows sum exactly to the printed "Manufacturing" subtotal, so the digits and column assignments are well corroborated. Scan artifacts, not footnote markers: faint stray specks/strokes sit beside several values in the first body rows — before "176", "105" and "6,657" and "5,464" (Food and kindred products), before "7" (Tobacco manufacturers), before "2,693" (Furniture and fixtures, a check-like stroke), before "0" (Furniture, Other national unions column), and before "473" and "553" (Coal mining). These are specks/ink from the facing column rules; no raised footnote markers are attached to any body value, so none were transcribed. Low-level typographic note: this scan renders many "i" dots faintly, so words such as "in", "which", "unions" and "Printing" appear dotless in the image; they are transcribed with normal spelling.

p. 198. This is a continuation page (caption reads "—Continued"), so the column headings are reprinted but the table body is cut at both ends: the earlier rows of the mining group (which is why the indented "Mining" subtotal of 44 elections exceeds the 4 + 18 shown above it) are on the preceding page, and the table continues past the bottom of the crop — "Business services" is the last row printed on this page, with its rule partly trimmed, and no grand total appears here. The indented rows "Mining" and "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" are group subtotal lines set off by rules. Doubtful marks, all read as printing specks rather than digits or footnote markers: a small dot sits immediately before 633 in "Mining and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fuels)" / "Number of employees eligible to vote"; before 38 in "Local and suburban transit..." / "Valid votes cast for unions – Other local unions"; before 18 in "Automotive repair, services, and garages" / "Number of elections ... Teamsters"; before 159 and before 1,617 in "Health services"; and before 14 in "Business services" / "Number of elections ... Other national unions". In each case I transcribed only the digits. Arithmetic checks pass throughout as transcribed: for every data row, elections won + elections with no representative = total elections, the four union columns sum to each "Total", and union votes + votes for no union = total valid votes cast. The "Transportation, communication, and other utilities" subtotal equals the sum of its six member rows in all 16 columns. No misprints detected.

p. 199. This is a continuation page of Table 16 (the caption carries "—Continued"), so the five detail rows at the top are the tail of the "Services" division begun on the preceding page; the "Services" row here is that division's subtotal and is set off by horizontal rules, as are "Public administration" and "Total, all industrial groups". Column headings are printed on this page, so they are transcribed. The image is clean and every cell is legible. All internal arithmetic checks out as printed: for each row the union-won plus no-representative elections equal total elections, the four union categories sum to the respective "Total" columns, and union votes plus no-union votes equal total valid votes cast. The faint marks in the "Teamsters" (election) column above the "Services" row and below it are scanning artifacts, not printed values.

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Source page 197 of NLRB FY1990 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1990, p. 197.
Source page 198 of NLRB FY1990 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1990, p. 198.
Source page 199 of NLRB FY1990 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1990, p. 199.

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.