The deficiencies of labor arbitration as a forum for the resolution of gender, race and other form invidious discrimination under federal law are examined. The tendency of arbitrators to view their grant of authority narrowly. constraints in fashioning remedies, possible complicity of the union in the discriminatory conduct, and an apparent reluctance by arbitrators to …

A discussion, reprinted from the Industrial and Labor Relations Review 24 (April, 1971), of sex discrimination in the workplace, the impact of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its arbitral applications and limitations. Revisiting the debate within the Academy over the proper role of an arbitrator confronted with conflict between the …