NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY2004 › Total Cases Received, Closed, and Pending, Fiscal Year 2004
| Total | Identification of filing party | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | AFL–CIO Unions | Other National Unions | Other local Unions | Individuals | Employers | |
| All Cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 22,120 | 13,718 | 628 | 722 | 6,201 | 851 |
| Received fiscal 2004 | 31,787 | 16,835 | 960 | 874 | 11,666 | 1,452 |
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 53,907 | 30,553 | 1,588 | 1,596 | 17,867 | 2,303 |
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 34,851 | 18,986 | 1,061 | 1,009 | 12,300 | 1,495 |
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 19,056 | 11,567 | 527 | 587 | 5,567 | 808 |
| Unfair labor practice cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 20,513 | 12,683 | 593 | 634 | 5,838 | 765 |
| Received fiscal 2004 | 26,890 | 13,525 | 749 | 639 | 10,693 | 1,284 |
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 47,403 | 26,208 | 1,342 | 1,273 | 16,531 | 2,049 |
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 29,954 | 15,688 | 853 | 755 | 11,317 | 1,341 |
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 17,449 | 10,520 | 489 | 518 | 5,214 | 708 |
| Representation cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 1,453 | 984 | 34 | 82 | 296 | 57 |
| Received fiscal 2004 | 4,588 | 3,187 | 202 | 215 | 843 | 141 |
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 6,041 | 4,171 | 236 | 297 | 1,139 | 198 |
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 4,605 | 3,186 | 198 | 236 | 853 | 132 |
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 1,436 | 985 | 38 | 61 | 286 | 66 |
| Union-shop deauthorization cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 62 | 62 | ||||
| Received fiscal 2004 | 127 | 127 | ||||
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 189 | 189 | ||||
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 125 | 125 | ||||
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 64 | 64 | ||||
| Amendment of certification cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Received fiscal 2004 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 22 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Unit clarification cases | ||||||
| Pending October 1, 2003 | 87 | 46 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 29 |
| Received fiscal 2004 | 165 | 116 | 7 | 19 | 3 | 20 |
| On docket fiscal 2004 | 252 | 162 | 8 | 25 | 8 | 49 |
| Closed fiscal 2004 | 155 | 104 | 8 | 17 | 5 | 21 |
| Pending September 30, 2004 | 97 | 58 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 28 |
149 of 149 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 198. Seven columns: stub, Total, and five columns under the spanner "Identification of filing party" (AFL–CIO Unions, Other National Unions, Other local Unions, Individuals, Employers). The stub column has no printed heading, and "Total" is a tall heading spanning both heading levels, so it is repeated in each. The six section lines ("All Cases", "Unfair labor practice cases", "Representation cases", "Union-shop deauthorization cases", "Amendment of certification cases", "Unit clarification cases") are printed centered across the data columns rather than in the stub column; they are given here as label-only rows. The five row labels (Pending October 1, 2003 / Received fiscal 2004 / On docket fiscal 2004 / Closed fiscal 2004 / Pending September 30, 2004) repeat identically within each of the six sections. In the "Union-shop deauthorization cases" section, the four union/employer columns each print a short double-hyphen dash ("--") rather than a figure; following the dash-rule convention these are transcribed as empty cells. The distinction matters for a reader: those cells are "not applicable", not blank omissions, and they are distinct from the printed zeros that appear in the amendment-of-certification and unit-clarification sections. In the "All Cases / Pending October 1, 2003" row the Total cell is printed as "*22,120" with the asterisk ahead of the figure; the asterisk is the marker for the starred footnote about revised prior-year totals, so it is written as 22,120^*. The caption carries a superscript 1 (footnote 1), "Unfair labor practice cases" a superscript 2, and "Representation cases" a superscript 3. All arithmetic checks pass: in every row the five filing-party columns sum to the Total column, and the five case-type sections sum to the "All Cases" section for each of the five line items. No misprints detected. The crop is complete — caption, body, and all four footnotes are visible, and nothing is cut off.
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.