NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1998 › Industrial distribution of cases received
| Food and kindred products | 1,455 | 1,192 | 962 | 221 | 8 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 199 | 5 | 41 | 6 | 0 | 12 | ||
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| Tobacco manufacturers | 4 | 3 | I | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 I | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Textile mill products | 171 | 154 | 133 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Apparel and other finished products made from fabric and | |||||||||||||||||
| similar materials . | 135 | 122 | 100 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Lumber and wood products (except furniture) | 310 | 242 | 212 | 28 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 54 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Furniture and fixtures . | 232 | 199 | 173 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 26 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Paper and allied products | 414 | 357 | 279 | 77 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 46 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Printing, publishing, and allied products | 714 | 609 | 499 | 101 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 50 | 5 | 33• | 3 | 1 | 13 | |
| Chemicals and allied products | 556 | 457 | 387 | 63 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | I | 97 | 78 | 3 | 16 | I | 0 | I | |
| Petroleum refining and related industries | 173 | 151 | 132 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | I | |
| Rubber and miscellaneous plastic products | 0.391 | 326 | 285 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 46 | 2 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Leather and leather products | 22 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Stone, clay, glass, and concrete products | 573 | 457 | 367 | 79 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 113 | 93 | 0 | 20 | I | 0 | 2 | |
| Primary metal industries | 1,002 | 878 | 683 | 186 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 97 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
| Fabricated metal products (except machinery and transport- ation equipment) | 964 | 819 | 672 | 141 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 137 | 104 | 3 | 30 | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| Machinery (except electrical) | 851 | 709 | 541 | 127 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 132 | 104 | 2 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| Electrical and electronic machinery, equipment and supplies | 573 | 514 | 406 | 104 | 2 | 0 | I | 0 | I | 52 | 34 | 3 | 15 | I | 0 | 6 | |
| Aircraft and parts . | 168 | 157 | 88 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ship and boat building and repairing | 121 | 109 | 89 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Automotive and other transportation equipment | 1,037 | 921 | 607 | 290 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | III | 99 | 1 | II | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| phic, medical, and optical . | 128 | 98 | 72 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 26 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Miscellaneous manufactunng industries | 215 | 150 | 120 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 49 | 1 12 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||
| Manufactunng | 10,209 | 8,644 | 6,824 | 1,691 | 86 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 1,473 | 1,163 | 32 278 | 28 | 2 | 62 | ||
| Metal mining | 53 | 46 | 41 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 I | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Coal mining Oil and gas extraction | 101 | 95 26 | 71 | 17 8 | 6 1 | 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 6 13 | 5 9 | 0 0 | 1 | 0 0 | 0 0_ | 0 0 | ||
| and quarrying of nonmetallic minerals (except fules) | 39 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Mining | 91 | 73 | 62 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 40 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| Mining | 284 | 240 | 191 | 7 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 0 | |||||||
| Construction . | 4,564 | 3,925 | 2,989 | 544 | 225 | 99 | 58 | 630 | 537 | 42 | 51 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.