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Recent supreme court decisions and the arbitration process

Reflections on the language of the Steelworkers’ Trilogy. The author warns against any construing of “industrial common law” that would allow arbitrators to go outside the corners of the CBA….

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Judicial review of labor arbitration awards: a second look at Enterprise Wheel and its progeny

A discussion as to the degree that external law must be considered, if at all, in the arbitral resolution of the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. The author views…

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A review of the cases and papers that preceded and followed the Trilogy cases.

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The arbitration hearing: Part 2. Arbitral therapy

In Steelworkers v. American Manufacturing Co, Justice William Douglas spoke of the “therapeutic” and “cathartic” values of labor arbitration. The authors describe the possible psychologically therapeutic effects that can derive…

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