NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1996 › Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1996
Stitched from pp. 119–120.
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Formal actions taken by type of case | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Types of formal actions taken | Cases in which formal actions taken | Total formal actions taken | RC | RM | RD | UD |
| Hearings completed, total | 814 | 793 | 709 | 11 | 73 | 9 |
| Initial hearings | 672 | 656 | 589 | 9 | 58 | 5 |
| Hearings on objections and/or challenges | 142 | 137 | 120 | 2 | 15 | 4 |
| Decisions issued, total | 625 | 613 | 552 | 12 | 49 | 2 |
| By Regional Directors | 575 | 564 | 506 | 11 | 47 | 2 |
| Elections directed | 520 | 512 | 464 | 8 | 40 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 55 | 52 | 42 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
| By Board | 53 | 52 | 46 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Transferred by Regional Directors for initial decision | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elections directed | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Review of Regional Directors' decisions: | ||||||
| Requests for review received | 331 | 318 | 278 | 10 | 30 | 1 |
| Withdrawn before request ruled upon | 26 | 25 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Board action on request ruled upon, total | 309 | 295 | 261 | 6 | 28 | 0 |
| Granted | 50 | 50 | 45 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Denied | 255 | 241 | 212 | 4 | 25 | 0 |
| Remanded | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Board decision after review, total | 48 | 47 | 41 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Regional Directors' decisions: | ||||||
| Affirmed | 15 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Modified | 7 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Reversed | 26 | 25 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Outcome: | ||||||
| Election directed | 43 | 43 | 38 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Dismissals on record | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Decisions on objections and/or challenges, total | 418 | 406 | 357 | 5 | 44 | 3 |
| By Regional Directors | 58 | 53 | 46 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| By Board | 360 | 353 | 311 | 3 | 39 | 3 |
| In stipulated elections | 321 | 318 | 277 | 2 | 39 | 2 |
| No exceptions to Regional Directors' reports | 186 | 183 | 158 | 1 | 24 | 2 |
| Exceptions to Regional Directors' reports | 135 | 135 | 119 | 1 | 15 | 0 |
| In directed elections (after transfer by Regional Director) | 36 | 32 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Review of Regional Directors' supplemental decisions: | ||||||
| Request for review received | 37 | 35 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Withdrawn before request ruled upon | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Board action on request ruled upon, total | 31 | 31 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Granted | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Denied | 24 | 24 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Remanded | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Board decision after review, total | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Regional Directors' decisions: | ||||||
| Affirmed | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Modified | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Reversed | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
166 of 184 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 119. Seven printed columns: the stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", and five columns under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" (Total formal actions taken^2, RC, RM, RD, UD). A double vertical rule separates RD from UD, consistent with footnote 2 (UD counts are excluded from the "Total formal actions taken" column); in every data row the "Total" column equals RC + RM + RD exactly, which supports the column assignments. "Review of Regional Directors' decisions:", "Regional Directors' decisions:" and "Outcome:" are label-only section lines printed with no values. "Transferred by Regional Directors for initial decision" and "Withdrawn after request granted, before Board review" each wrap onto two printed lines and are joined here. The scan is slightly speckled (stray marks above "Review of Regional Directors' decisions:" and beside some rows) but no digit was ambiguous. The caption "Table 3B.—Formal Actions Taken in Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases, Fiscal Year 1996^1" carries footnote marker 1 and is omitted per instructions.
p. 120. Seven columns: stub, "Cases in which formal actions taken", then five columns under the spanner "Formal actions taken by type of case" (Total formal actions taken^2, RC, RM, RD, UD); a double vertical rule separates RD from UD but UD still sits under the spanner. In the row "Board decision after review, total" the punctuation after "review" prints like a period in this scan; I read it as a comma, matching the other "..., total" rows. Flagging it since it is a scan-quality judgement, not a certain reading. Footnote marker 1 appears only in the caption ("Fiscal Year 1996^1"), which is excluded per instructions, so no row or heading in the grid carries it; marker 2 is on the "Total formal actions taken" heading. All arithmetic checks pass as printed: in every data row RC + RM + RD equals the "Total formal actions taken" cell (UD excluded per footnote 2), and Granted + Denied + Remanded (5 + 24 + 2) equals the 31 in "Board action on request ruled upon, total". No suspected misprints. Minor scan artifacts that are not data: a stray mark at the upper right of the table rule, and a stray dot left of "321" in the "Cases in which formal actions taken" column of the "In stipulated elections" row.
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.