The United Mine Workers adopted a bargaining system that allows rank-and-file members to tell its negotiators the most serious problems confronting them. The Union encourages its members to resolve minor…
The United Mine Workers adopted a bargaining system that allows rank-and-file members to tell its negotiators the most serious problems confronting them. The Union encourages its members to resolve minor…
President Stark posits that “arbitration is still young and growing. It has all the attributes of a healthy, responsive institution, including normal growing pains.” He then surveys arbitration in the…
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 arbitration, that offers generally better…
The 1974 National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement was characterized as revolutionary in bringing harmony to a previously divisive industry; it included a new, expedited grievance procedure, established arbitrator panels in…