An introduction to papers that address interest arbitration in local transit and newspaper publishing

The author asserts that interest arbitration for local transit disputes has worked well, and that it is a viable substitute for a community crippling strike. He addresses the qualifications that arbitrators must have, including mutual acceptability to the parties. The author opines that acceptability on tripartite panels rests on two elements: the standards the arbitrator …

Interest arbitration in the private and public sectors are differentiated by the power and the threat of economic loss that underlie bargaining relationships in the private sector and not in the public sector. The author asserts that collective bargaining in the true sense cannot exist in the public sector; that the function of interest arbitration …