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Results of Union-Shop Deauthorization Polls in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1992
| 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 | 61 | 28 | 45.9 | 33 | 54.1 | 3,819 | 846 | 22.2 | 2,973 | 77.8 | 2,931 | 76.7 | 717 | 18.8 |
| AFL-CIO unions | 43 | 23 | 53.5 | 20 | 46.5 | 2,528 | 808 | 32.0 | 1,720 | 68.0 | 1,964 | 77.7 | 682 | 27.0 |
| Teamsters | 11 | 2 | 18.2 | 9 | 81.8 | 721 | 13 | 1.8 | 708 | 98.2 | 543 | 75.3 | 12 | 1.7 |
| Other national unions | 1 | 0 | 1 | 100.0 | 226 | 0 | 226 | 100.0 | 217 | 96.0 | 0 | |||
| Other local unions | 6 | 3 | 50.0 | 3 | 50.0 | 344 | 25 | 7.3 | 319 | 92.7 | 207 | 60.2 | 23 | 6.7 |
- 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. 162. The table has 15 columns: stub, then "Number of polls" (Total; Resulting in deauthorization Number/Percent of total; Resulting in continued authorization Number/Percent of total), "Employees involved (number eligible to vote)" (Total eligible; In polls: Resulting in deauthorization Number/Percent of total; Resulting in continued authorization Number/Percent of total), and "Valid votes cast" (Total; Percent of total eligible; Cast for deauthorization Number/Percent of total eligible). Row "Other national unions": three cells print a dash rule rather than a figure and are transcribed as "" — the "Resulting in deauthorization / Percent of total" column under Number of polls, the "In polls / Resulting in deauthorization / Percent of total" column, and the "Cast for deauthorization / Percent of total eligible" column. The corresponding Number cells in those groups print a literal 0. Row "Other national unions", column "In polls / Resulting in continued authorization / Percent of total": the scan shows "100 0" with the decimal point dropped or too faint to register; transcribed as "100.0" to match the same row's "100.0" under Number of polls. The underlying value is unambiguous (226 of 226). Row "Total", column "In polls / Resulting in deauthorization / Number": a small comma-shaped speck sits in the cell just left of "846". It is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker or digit, and is not transcribed. A similar stray mark appears in the margin left of the "Total" row label and at the far right of the caption rule. Scan quality note: many "i" dots are lost in the headings (e.g. "Resultmg", "contmued", "umons", "authonzation"); headings are transcribed with correct spelling. Hyphenated line breaks in headings ("de-authorization", "contin-ued authorization", "deauthonz-ation") have been rejoined. All internal arithmetic is consistent as transcribed: the four affiliation rows sum to the Total row in every count column (polls 43+11+1+6=61; deauthorization polls 23+2+0+3=28; continued 20+9+1+3=33; eligible 2,528+721+226+344=3,819; in-polls deauthorization 808+13+0+25=846; in-polls continued 1,720+708+226+319=2,973; valid votes 1,964+543+217+207=2,931; cast for deauthorization 682+12+0+23=717), and every printed percentage matches its ratio. No misprints 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.