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
President Holley shares the wisdom of Academy colleagues and his own experience on how to become an arbitrator, conduct a hearing, and write a decision.… Read More »Presidential Address: Lessons Learned in Arbitrationand Within the Academy: 50 Years After the Steelworkers Trilogy
President Picher recounts the changing role of arbitrators in applying external law, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2009 decision in 14 Penn Plaza v Pyett.
A light-hearted review of the progress of women in the arbitration profession, and a word of cuation about the Academy’s upcoming vote on a change… Read More »Presidential Address from Barbara Zausner
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President Fleischli describes how his work experience brought him to service as a labor arbitrator, and the reasons that he finds the practice to be… Read More »Presidential address: Maintaining impartiality in the evolving world of work
NAA President Richard I. Bloch is introduced by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Harry T. Edwards. President Block proposes that arbitrators engage in more experimentation… Read More »Presidential address: Arbitration in a litigious society: arbitration, innovation, and imagination – escaping the missionary position
President Sherman describes his early years and offers observations about the nature of arbitrators.
NAA President Kagel warns of the increasingly legalistic environment for labor arbitration caused by the spill-over of practices from the courts and from private commercial… Read More »Presidential address: Seeking a vaccine: Avoiding the sad practices of commercial arbitration
An examination of the roles of arbitrators and the courts in interpreting and enforcing labor agreements. Bases on which courts have refused to enforce arbitrators’… Read More »Presidential address: Contract reading revisited