President Vernon addresses importance of preserving the cultural values implicit in collective bargaining: the human dignity of employees; the moral obligation of the employer to… Read More »Presidential Address: The Importance of Service and Neutrality to the Process of Dispute Resolution in the Workplace
Prof. Kochan addresses the future of collective bargaining and its implications for labor arbitration. He considers two questions about the future of collective bargaining: 1)… Read More »Labor arbitration and collective bargaining in the 1990s: An economic analysis
The text of the United States Labor Arbitration Act
The various legislation committees of the Academy had been concerned for, eight years, with the question of legislation affecting labor dispute arbitration. A chronological record… Read More »Report of Committee on Law and Legislation – 1959
Unions view the arbitration process as an extension of the democratic principles to the industrial world; the agreed-upon substitute for strikes or economic warfare, in… Read More »Arbitration: A union viewpoint
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
A discussion of the effect of a continuing business recession on labor arbitration in the context of strong unions and extensive collective bargaining. The author… Read More »Trends likely to affect labor arbitration
An examination of the nature, characteristics, & functions of grievance arbitration. The “mediation approach” (which is preferred) is contrasted with the “judicial approach” (although specific… Read More »Effectuating the labor contract through arbitration
A discussion of factors likely to affect the future of labor arbitration (in an address delivered at the first annual meeting of the NAA.) The… Read More »The future of labor arbitration – a challenge