A description of the experiment, in the bituminous coal industry, of having an additional, optional mediation by an experienced arbitrator following the internal grievance procedure… Read More »Grievance Mediation:1. The coal industry experiment
A description of one company’s experience with a six-month trial period of grievance mediation. Mediation is viewed as providing a cheaper and quicker alternative to… Read More »Grievance mediation: 2. A management approach
A review of statutorily based grievance mediation procedures used for public employees in Michigan. The author reflects upon why grievance mediation does not enjoy a… Read More »Grievance mediation:3. A union advocate’s view
A survey of the pooled knowledge and experience of judges, advocates, and arbitrators regarding how decisions come into being and how they are shaped by… Read More »Decisional thinkingWashington panel report
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
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… Read More »Ethical responsibilities of the arbitrator1. The case for a code of professional responsibility for labor arbitrators
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… Read More »Advisory arbitration of new contracts: a case study1. Avoiding confrontation by advisory arbitration
Review of processes for resolving impasses over new public sector contracts. Discusses major objectives unique to the public sector and means of achieving them.
The author addresses the extent to which arbitrators can or should 1) direct the course of the hearing, 2) consider apparent unexplained “holes” in the… Read More »Title: Problems of the ad hoc arbitrator: Limits to accommodation
After introductory remarks on economic progress in Puerto Rico, the contribution of arbitration to industrial democracy, and the history of arbitration in the US and… Read More »The presidential address