The authors describe the reasons that the Postal Service has adopted transformative mediation, implemented through its REDRESS program, for the resolution of discrimination disputes. They… Read More »Mediation of discrimination complaints at the USPS: Purpose drives practice
An examination of the trend in elapsed time from the filing of a grievance to the issuance of the arbitrator’s award, from the 1940’s to… Read More »New perspectives on old problems: Elapsed time in grievance arbitration
Jack Northrup, through his personal involvement, was able to satisfactorily resolve most employee problems in the company’s early years. In 1946, although non-union, the company… Read More »Arbitration of job security and other employment-related issues for the unorganized worker: 2. Grievance procedure and arbitration in a nonunion environment The Northrop experience
The author describes factors for the “clogging” of the arbitration process and that threaten the “final and binding quality” of decisions. These factors include “passing… Read More »Suggested new approaches to grievance arbitration
A broad view of the parties’ system of self-government that addresses substantive and procedural issues, from the scope of the duty to bargain to arbitration.… Read More »Reason, contract, and law in labor relations