Prompt and unbiased labor arbitration
Grievance arbitration, interest arbitration, and fact finding since 2008
EXPERTISE
- Economics Ph.D. with strong quantitative skills
- Decades of teaching and research about labor-management relations, human resource management, labor market analysis, employee benefits, health economics, negotiation
- Expertise informs analysis of wage comparability, employer ability to pay, pension funding, health insurance, statistics
- Experience as a supervisor in hiring, performance appraisal, terminations of unsatisfactory employees, and promotions
IMPARTIALITY
- Unbiased evaluation of both sides’ evidence and arguments
- Discharge case awards range from sustaining the discharge to reinstatement with a year’s back pay, depending on the facts
LABOR ARBITRATOR ROSTERS
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS)
Private sector and public sector
Michigan Employment Relations Commission (MERC)
- Act 312 interest arbitrators for public-safety employees
- Fact finders for interest disputes involving other public employees
- Grievance arbitrators
TIMELY PROCESS
- Prompt scheduling of hearings
- Prompt rendering of decisions
- Expedited arbitration available
