Arbitrator Bickner offers practical suggestions to encourage grievance mediation, including, especially, in complex cases, for which the approach can be especially efficatious.

Attorney Pearson points out the limitations and deficiencies of mediation as a means of resolving grievances

Attorney Hayes describes the advantages and disadvantages of grievance mediation, and the success of med-arb, from his perspective as an attorney practicing in Ontario, Canada.

Professor Goldman explains how mediation can be performed more effectively by understanding the nature and relationships between the strength of 7 bargaining elements. He presents a model for assessing those…

George Cohen is Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He discusses the usefulness of mediation for the difficulties of first-contract negotiations, and the advantage gained by cultivating relationships…

Arbitrator Picher explores the the recent trend, in Canada, of the parties requesting that the arbitrator mediate their dispute. Having conducted an informal survey, he found that mediation was used…

An examination of the changes in labor arbitration resulting from competition and technology. Management and Union perspectives are furnished, both advocating mediation. The management representative advocates that NAA members engage…

Chief Justice Gold presents literate and humorous advice about what is required of for success in interest mediation.

A response to accusations that arbitration is becoming more like litigation, and that arbitrators are acting more like judges. The author argues that both attorneys representing clients in arbitration and…

Binding grievance arbitration is not structured to resolve civil and individual rights disputes that occur within the workplace, to alleviate logjams of grievances or to involve public employers uncertain of…