The author maintains that appellate review of arbitration awards in the newspaper industry is too costly, time-wasting and unproductive.
A description of Pennsylvania’s six years’ experience with compulsory interest arbitration in the public sector….
The author briefly three separate interest-arbitration laws in Wisconsin and discusses problems, either encounteredor anticipated, under the most recent interest-arbitration law, which became effective January 1, 1978.
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…
Contract (interest) arbitration has deeper roots in American labor relations than does grievance arbitration and, when utilized, is regarded as a more significant process. The author provides a brief historical…
The article describes how arbitrator actually resolve ability-to-pay issues; it is not a prescription of how they should. It notes that some arbitrators accept the allocations of funds in governmental…
The report of an industrial inquiry commission of the compensation of hospital employees in Ontario (the “Johnson Commission”) concluded that neither government guidelines nor ability-to-pay should be used by arbitrators…
The economics of public employee compensation are discussed. The author urges arbitrators to familiarize themselves with labor statistics data, job qualifications, and the costs of wages and benefits. He concludes…