The permanent arbitration system between John Deere and UAW locals at eight of the Company’s plants in Iowa and Indiana are described and evaluated, including the procedures followed and substantive…

Although changing life styles have given rise to new disciplinary issues, those issues are generally adequately resolved by application of already established arbitration standards and principles. Novel questions that arise…

Richard Mittenthal traces the evolution of labor arbitration over the past 50 years, from the model described by George Taylor – as a substitute for strike, with the arbitrator serving…

Arb. Nicolau contends that the arbitration process can be simplified to achieve cost-savings, time-savings and dispute resolution. The best way to simplify arbitration is to avoid it. Arb. Nicolau suggests…

A critique of decision writing and the growing tendency of arbitrators to write overly-lengthy decisions, to overuse dicta, and to engage in “pseudo-intellectual posturing” and to give unsolicited and gratuitous…

The authority of labor arbitrators to fashion and administer discovery procedures is now firmly established. The basic objective of arbitral discovery is to achieve full disclosure while avoiding the legal…

Arbitrator Block describes the panel’s inquiry as addressing both the fact-finding and decisional aspects of the trier’s role….

A discussion of the quality of advocacy in labor arbitration and the responsibility of advocates to ensure they do not damage continuing labor-management relations. Panelists discuss the importance of a…

Poorly crafted arbitration awards invite judicial attack and frustrate the objective of finality. The authors assert that a competent final and binding award must 1) be enforceable and impervious to…

The author differentiates between how expert medical testimony is treated in a judicial forum versus an arbitration.