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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Unfair Labor Practice Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1998

printed as Table 7 · source pages 157–159 · nlrb1998_p0157_t0

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Method and stage of dispositionAll C casesCA casesCB casesCC casesCD casesCE casesCG casesCP cases
Method and stage of dispositionNumberPercent of total closedPercent of total methodNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closedNumberPercent of total closed
Total number of cases closed33,287100.025,928100.06,449100.0529100.0183100.026100.032100.0140100.0
Agreement of the parties10,95932.9100.09,58136.91,07616.623644.652.7519.21340.64330.7
Informal settlement10,90432.899.59,54236.81,06316.423444.252.7519.21340.64230.0
Before issuance of complaint7,93523.872.46,82326.386913.419637.0[2]415.31031.23323.5
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing2,8528.626.02,60710.01932.9366.852.713.839.375.0
After hearing opened, before issuance of administrative law judge's decision1170.41.11120.410.020.300021.4
Formal settlement550.20.5390.1130.220.300010.7
Before opening of hearing420.10.4290.1100.120.300010.7
Stipulated decision00.00000000
Consent decree420.10.4290.1100.120.300010.7
After hearing opened130.00.1100.030.000000
Stipulated decision00.00000000
Consent decree130.00.1100.030.000000
Compliance with6652.0100.06122.3380.5101.80013.142.8
Administrative law judge's decision180.12.7180.0000000
Board decision3601.154.13191.2310.471.300032.1
Adopting administrative law judge's decision (no exceptions filed)1810.527.21680.6130.200000
Contested1790.526.91510.5180.271.300032.1
Circuit court of appeals decree2830.942.62711.070.130.50013.110.7
Supreme Court action40.00.640.0000000
Withdrawal10,87132.7100.08,90834.31,71726.616831.701557.61237.55136.4
Before issuance of complaint10,10730.493.08,17831.51,68626.116531.1[2]1557.61237.55136.4
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing7132.16.66832.6270.430.50000
After hearing opened, before administrative law judge's decision510.20.5470.140.000000
After administrative law judge's decision, before Board decision00.00000000
After Board or court decision00.00000000
Dismissal10,40431.3100.06,62025.53,61556.011521.70623.0618.74230.0
Before issuance of complaint10,18130.697.86,44724.83,58555.510319.4[2]623.0618.73424.2
After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing1280.41.2910.3170.2122.200085.7
After hearing opened, before administrative law judge's decision210.10.2190.020.000000
By administrative law judge's decision40.00.030.010.000000
By Board decision550.20.5480.170.100000
Adopting administrative law judge's decision (no exceptions filed)370.10.4330.140.000000
Contested180.10.2150.030.000000
By circuit court of appeals decree150.00.1120.030.000000
By Supreme Court action10.00.010.0000000
10(k) actions (see Table 7A for details of dispositions)1780.50.000017897.2000
Otherwise (compliance with order of administrative law judge or Board not achieved-firm went out of business2090.60.02060.730.000000

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  1. 1 See Table 8 for summary of disposition by stage. See Glossary for definitions of terms.
  2. 2 CD cases closed in this stage are processed as jurisdictional disputes under Sec. 10(k) of the Act. See Table 7A.

152 of 159 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 157. 18 columns: stub + "All C cases" (Number, Percent of total closed, Percent of total method) + seven two-column groups (CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG, CP), each Number and Percent of total closed. The crop cuts the table off after the row "Contested"; the body of Table 7 clearly continues on the following page (no "Court decision"/"Withdrawn"/"Dismissed" sections and no footnote block appear on this image), so `footnotes` is empty. The caption (excluded per instructions) carries a raised footnote marker 1 whose text is not printed in the crop. Decimal points: this scan is low-quality and the periods in the one-decimal percentages are almost entirely lost, so the image literally shows "100 0", "32 9", "0 4", etc. I have restored the decimal point in every percent cell (e.g. "100.0", "32.9", "0.4") because the column is uniformly one-decimal percentages; one cell, "Informal settlement" / CB cases / Percent of total closed, is printed with a visible comma rather than a period ("16,4") and I transcribed it as "16.4". Doubtful cell: row "Before issuance of complaint", column CD cases / Number, is printed as "(2)" — parentheses around a 2 — with a dash rule in the adjoining percent column. Transcribed as printed. It is internally inconsistent: CD "Informal settlement" is 5 and CD "After issuance of complaint, before opening of hearing" is 5, so this cell should arithmetically be 0 (every other case-type column shows a plain number here). It may be a misprint, or a stray-mark artifact over a printed 0; I did not correct it. Minor stray ink precedes "665" in the "Compliance with" / All C cases / Number cell and follows the labels "Compliance with" and "Contested"; treated as scan speckle, not as footnote markers. Dash rules ("----") used for not-applicable percents are rendered as empty cells throughout, per instructions.

p. 158. Crop is a continuation page ("-Continued"); it begins mid-table with two rows of a preceding section (Circuit court of appeals decree, Supreme Court action) whose section label is on the previous page, and no footnotes are printed beneath it. 18 columns: stub, All C cases (Number / Percent of total closed / Percent of total method), then Number + Percent of total closed for CA, CB, CC, CD, CE, CG, CP. Decimal points: the 1-bit scan has dropped nearly every decimal point in the percent columns, which print as e.g. "0 9", "42 6", "100 0". These are one-decimal percentages, so I have restored the point ("0.9", "42.6", "100.0"). No digits were altered. Em-dash/dash-rule cells ("----") in the percent columns (and in the All C "Percent of total closed" column for the two zero rows) are rendered as "" per instructions; they are printed as dash rules, not blanks. "(2)": in both "Before issuance of complaint" rows the CD cases Number cell prints "(2)" in parentheses rather than a digit; the corresponding CD total rows (Withdrawal, Dismissal) print "0". This is transcribed as printed; it appears to be a reference to a footnote 2 carried on an earlier page, which is not visible in this crop. Arithmetic check (transcribed as printed, not corrected): the Dismissal components sum to less than the Dismissal total — All C 10,181+128+21+4+55 = 10,389 vs. 10,404 printed; CA 6,447+91+19+3+48 = 6,608 vs. 6,620; CB 3,585+17+2+1+7 = 3,612 vs. 3,615. CC (115) and the Withdrawal block (10,871 = 10,107+713+51+0+0) do reconcile, and "By Board decision" equals its two sub-lines in every column, so the shortfall is consistent across columns and likely reflects a component line not printed here rather than a misread digit. Low-confidence individual cells, all small and re-checked against column rules: CA "After hearing opened..." under Withdrawal reads "0 1" (0.1) where "0 2" would be expected from the All C column; CP "Dismissal" percent 30.0 vs. components 24.2+5.7 = 29.9 (rounding).

p. 159. This is a continuation page: the table body begins mid-list (the caption reads "-Continued") and carries no total rows; the rows above "By circuit court of appeals decree" are on the preceding page. The scan has lost nearly every period on the page (sentence periods in the footnotes are missing too), so the decimal points in the percent columns print as blank gaps (e.g. "0 0", "97 2"); I have transcribed them as decimals (0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 97.2), which is what the typesetting intends. Percent cells printed as a dash rule ("----") are given as "". The last row label's closing parenthesis is not legible after "business" at the end of the third wrapped line - I transcribed the label without it; the opening parenthesis after "Otherwise" is clear, so a closing ")" is probably present but faded or absent in the print. The hyphen in "achieved-firm" may be an em dash in the original. The marker for footnote 2 does not appear on any row or heading in this crop; it presumably attaches to a row on the earlier page of the table, but the footnote itself is printed under this page so it is included. Footnote 1's marker is on the caption, which is excluded per instructions.

Source image

Source page 157 of NLRB FY1998 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1998, p. 157.
Source page 158 of NLRB FY1998 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1998, p. 158.
Source page 159 of NLRB FY1998 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1998, p. 159.

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.