The silent contract vs. express provisions: The arbitration of local working conditions
January 1, 1962
A review of arbitration decisions, comparing contracts that contain a “maintenance of conditions” provision with contracts that do not. The result of that review: standards for the arbitrator’s decisions and the awards are the same for wash-up time, lunch period and contracting-out cases, but are different for crew-size cases (possibly because crew size goes to the heart of management rights).