A report of the Committee on Law and Legislation for 1971, National Academy of Arbitrators, with a focus on Section 301 actions under the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) reported…

Arbitrators, judges, and lawyers consider questions of law commonly considered by federal appellate courts reviewing NLRB decisions and the kinds of questions of law ordinarily considered by trial judges considering…

The author distinguishes between the need for arbitrators to be proactive in statutory disputes, as opposed to an otherwise ordinary CBA dispute in which a statutory issue is presented. The…

An examination of the ways in which the tendency to legislate infiltrates the arbitration process. In addition to cases considering aspects of the National Labor Relations Act, there is a…

A defense of greater adherence to more formal rules of evidence and more formalized procedures in arbitration to protect finality and assure certainty and fairness.

A review of key NLRB deferral decisions and related court decisions that have resulted in the expectation that arbitrators will apply the law. An increase in the arbitration of statutorily-based…

Significant developments for 1980 – including statutory, judicial, and related activity – in public employment disputes settlement at federal, state, and local levels in the United States and in Canada….

The author maintains that, under Collyer, deferral has been distorted to mean a national policy in favor of arbitrating all disputes involving contract terms, making compulsory a process that was…

The author discusses two recent Fifth Circuit Title VII cases that epitomize areas governed by statutory principles which might better be controlled by collective bargaining. In each case, an agreement…

The authors examine collective bargaining and arbitration in baseball and football, and the role the baseball and football commissioners have played in resolving player disputes.