Bizet’s CARMEN, Wagner’s RING CYCLE, Melville’s BILLY BUDD, and Hugo’s LES MISERABLES and North American First Nations legend, THE PAJAMA GAME and Carroll’s ALICE’S ADVENTURES… Read More »Workplace Conflict in Opera and Literature
Employment law is witnessing a great upsurge in class action filings for wages and hours, for discrimination, and for other claims. Class action waivers can… Read More »An Introduction to Mandatory Arbitration and Class Action Waivers
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… Read More »The process of process: The historical development of procedure in labor arbitration.
President Fleischli describes how his work experience brought him to service as a labor arbitrator, and the reasons that he finds the practice to be… Read More »Presidential address: Maintaining impartiality in the evolving world of work
Labor and management advocates describe the attributes they seek in an arbitrator, the conduct of the hearing, the handling of evidence, closing statements, mediation, decision-writing… Read More »Ask the advocates
Professor Grodin examines four U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The first deals with setting aside a labor arbitrator’s award that conflicts with “public policy”; the second… Read More »Arbitration decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court 2000-2001
Labor arbitrators are experiencing an increase in the scope of cases outside the CBA, while the authority and power of parties and the authority of… Read More »Presidential address: Wherefore?
An examination of the factors that influenced the growth of arbitration in the United States, trends in arbitration, and permanent arbitration systems. The author concludes… Read More »The future of grievance arbitration
A discussion of the labor arbitration model and the need for changes of that the model in a changing society.
Suggestions on restoring attributes of arbitration that made it attractive: the curbing of hearings on frivolous grievances; the promotion of local resolution, to minimize time… Read More »Arbitration — as the parties see it:2. A union point of view