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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1991
| 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 | Number | Percent of total eligible | ||
| 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 | 63 | 26 | 41.3 | 37 | 58.7 | 4,305 | 1,425 | 33.1 | 2,880 | 66.9 | 3,120 | 72.5 | 1,299 | 30.2 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 54 | 22 | 40.7 | 32 | 59.3 | 3,644 | 1,242 | 34.1 | 2,402 | 65.9 | 2,619 | 71.9 | 1,140 | 31.3 |
| Teamsters | 3 | 2 | 66.7 | 1 | 33.3 | 188 | 132 | 70.2 | 56 | 29.8 | 163 | 86.7 | 113 | 60.1 |
| Other national unions | 4 | 1 | 25.0 | 3 | 75.0 | 180 | 39 | 21.7 | 141 | 78.3 | 157 | 87.2 | 36 | 20.0 |
| Other local unions | 2 | 1 | 50.0 | 1 | 50.0 | 293 | 12 | 4.1 | 281 | 95.9 | 181 | 61.8 | 10 | 3.4 |
- 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.
40 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 200. Grid is stub + 14 numeric columns, with four printed heading levels; "Total" (polls), "Total eligible", "Total" (valid votes) and "Percent of total eligible" (valid votes) are tall single headings repeated down the levels, and the polls panel's "Number"/"Percent of total" and the "Cast for deauthorization" subheads occupy the two lowest levels. The stub heading reads "Affiliation of union holding union-shop contract"; "Total el-igible" is a hyphen break joined to "Total eligible". Two decimal points are faint or dropped in the scan and were restored: Teamsters, Valid votes cast / Cast for deauthorization / Percent of total eligible, printed as "60 1", transcribed 60.1; and Other local unions, Employees involved / In polls / Resulting in deauthorization / Percent of total, printed as "4 1", transcribed 4.1. Both are confirmed by the arithmetic (113/188 = 60.1; 12/293 = 4.1). Minor scan artifacts that are not part of the values: a stray dot before ".26" in the Total row (Number of polls / Resulting in deauthorization / Number = 26), before "· 71.9" in the AFL-CIO row (Valid votes cast / Percent of total eligible = 71.9), and before "· 2" in the Other local unions row (Number of polls / Total = 2). A stray tick also sits in the blank stub heading area and in the blank "Total" cell of the Valid votes cast panel; neither carries text. The AFL-CIO and Teamsters stub labels are followed by long leader-dot runs with gaps (extra dot groups after the label), dropped as leaders. All column and row sums and all printed percentages check out against the printed components, so no misprint is suspected.
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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.