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Analysis of Methods of Disposition of Representation and Union Deauthorization Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 2009
| Method and stage of disposition | All R cases | RC cases | RM cases | RD cases | UD cases | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| Total, all | 2,655 | 100.0 | 2,002 | 100.0 | 66 | 100.0 | 587 | 100.0 | 94 | 100.0 |
| Certification issued, total | 1,586 | 59.7 | 1,302 | 65.0 | 17 | 25.8 | 267 | 45.5 | 44 | 46.8 |
| After: | ||||||||||
| Consent election | 41 | 1.5 | 38 | 1.9 | 1 | 1.5 | 2 | 0.3 | 2 | 2.1 |
| Before notice of hearing | 9 | 0.3 | 9 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 2.1 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 29 | 1.1 | 27 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 3 | 0.1 | 2 | 0.1 | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated election | 1,370 | 51.6 | 1,117 | 55.8 | 10 | 15.2 | 243 | 41.4 | 31 | 33.0 |
| Before notice of hearing | 130 | 4.9 | 96 | 4.8 | 2 | 3.0 | 32 | 5.5 | 12 | 12.8 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 1,219 | 45.9 | 1,003 | 50.1 | 8 | 12.1 | 208 | 35.4 | 19 | 20.2 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 21 | 0.8 | 18 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Expedited election | 2 | 0.1 | 1 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed election | 109 | 4.1 | 93 | 4.6 | 2 | 3.0 | 14 | 2.4 | 9 | 9.6 |
| Board-directed election | 64 | 2.4 | 53 | 2.6 | 3 | 4.5 | 8 | 1.4 | 2 | 2.1 |
| By withdrawal, total | 909 | 34.2 | 654 | 32.7 | 20 | 30.3 | 235 | 40.0 | 33 | 35.1 |
| Before notice of hearing | 136 | 5.1 | 61 | 3.0 | 9 | 13.6 | 66 | 11.2 | 22 | 23.4 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 715 | 26.9 | 544 | 27.2 | 11 | 16.7 | 160 | 27.3 | 10 | 10.6 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 19 | 0.7 | 16 | 0.8 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 0.5 | 1 | 1.1 |
| After Regional Director's decision and direction of election | 33 | 1.2 | 28 | 1.4 | 0 | 0.0 | 5 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.0 |
| After Board decision and direction of election | 6 | 0.2 | 5 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By dismissal, total | 160 | 6.0 | 46 | 2.3 | 29 | 43.9 | 85 | 14.5 | 17 | 18.1 |
| Before notice of hearing | 30 | 1.1 | 6 | 0.3 | 6 | 9.1 | 18 | 3.1 | 14 | 14.9 |
| After notice of hearing, before hearing closed | 79 | 3.0 | 13 | 0.6 | 9 | 13.6 | 57 | 9.7 | 2 | 2.1 |
| After hearing closed, before decision | 1 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.0 |
| By Regional Director's decision | 34 | 1.3 | 18 | 0.9 | 9 | 13.6 | 7 | 1.2 | 1 | 1.1 |
| By Board decision | 16 | 0.6 | 9 | 0.4 | 5 | 7.6 | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.0 |
100 of 106 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 119. The crop shows no footnote text: the caption carries a raised "1" after "Fiscal Year 2009", but the matching footnote is not printed within this image (it presumably sits below the crop or on a facing page), so `footnotes` is empty. The body itself appears complete — the last row, "By Board decision", is followed by the table's closing rule. Every printed figure is legible and internally consistent: the three component totals (Certification issued 1,586 + By withdrawal 909 + By dismissal 160) sum to the printed "Total, all" of 2,655, and the same holds in each of the RC, RM, RD and UD panels; all indented sub-rows sum to their parent lines as well. No suspected misprints. Row labels are indented in the original to show hierarchy (e.g. "Before notice of hearing" appears five times, under Consent election, Stipulated election, By withdrawal and By dismissal); indentation is not preserved in the grid, so the repeated labels are distinguished only by their position relative to the preceding total/section row. "After:" is a section line with a label and no values. The two-line label "After Regional Director's decision and direction of election" has been joined into one line. Apostrophes in "Director's" are typographic (curly) in the scan and are rendered here as plain apostrophes.
Source image
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.