An examination of collective bargaining in the longshore industry that includes a discussion of the results of the Department of Labor’s Longshore Project, with particular detail as to the New…

Review of processes for resolving impasses over new public sector contracts. Discusses major objectives unique to the public sector and means of achieving them.

An outline of fact-finding procedures for federal public service employees in Canada. The broad sentiment is that fact-finding tribunals should be eliminated in favor of mediation, a sentiment the author…

Examination of the necessity of a code of professional responsibility for labor arbitrators that would address competency, impartiality, expedition, and expense. Since many arbitrators are not members of the Academy…

A summary of 1973-74 state legislation enacting or amending public employee bargaining laws and court and agency decisions interpreting public sector bargaining laws.

The author rejects the compulsory arbitration of contract terms in the public sector: “Essentially, our union has learned, as the civil rights movement and the labor movement had to learn,…

The author asserts that, in the public sector, interest disputes can be effectively resolved through a political process using fact-finding, reason and persuasion, and that that process should be a…

The author discusses fact finding in the State of Michigan and contends that some Michigan fact finders lack experience; that some do not weigh all relevant factors; that some substitute…

Two principal types of fact-finding – without recommendations and with recommendations – are considered. The author finds little value in the former, except when utilized to invite impartial technicians to…

In 1974, Iowa enacted a variation on final-offer-by-issue arbitration: the fact-finder’s recommendation on each issue is a third alternative for selection by the arbitrator. The legislation cover all non-federal public…