While adhering to the terms of the CBA between Ford Motor Company and the UAW during wartime, Arbitrator Harry Shulman nonetheless interpreted those terms broadly, so as to produce results…
The author presents data revealing that current labor arbitration procedures derive not from statutes, court decisions or the common agreement of the parties, but from (1) the arbitrators before whom…
How and why labor arbitrators decide discipline and discharge cases. An empirical examination.
Stephen F. Befort, Mario F. Bognanno, Laura J. Cooper, Nels E. Nelson, Theodore J. St. Antoine
January 16, 2007 Proceedings Database
A statistical analysis of over 2,000 discipline and discharge arbitration decisions and the rationale given in those cases in which the discharge penalty was mitigated. Concepts such as the quantum…
Controlling the Arbitration Hearing
Laura J. Cooper, Ellen C. Kearns, Sean T. McGee, Calvin William Sharpe
January 16, 2008 Proceedings Database
An exploration of whether the phrase “control of the hearing” has a core meaning upon which advocates and arbitrators agree or whether it is a subjective concept that can provide…
Patient Information and Privacy – Use of Patient Information in Arbitration
Laura J. Cooper, Patricia Thomas Bittel, Brendan Cummins, Timothy Kohls
March 16, 2012 Proceedings Database
A panel discussion of the substantive and procedural issues attendant the use of patient information in health-care employee discipline arbitrations