Originally from Dispute Resolution Journal

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In this article, Leonard Polletta reviews the court decisions that relate to employment discrimination rulings (from Gilmer to Wright). Polletta analyzes the various and controversial decisions that have emerged, and emphasizes the vital role that unions must play in order to help end workplace discrimination.

Two bites of the apple are better than one when it comes to the fight against discrimination in the workplace. Unions have a positive role to play in actively working to end workplace discrimination. And the grievance-arbitration procedures of collective bargaining agreements can be effective weapons if utilized aggressively to identify, isolate, and end workplace discrimination and to provide individual victims of discriminatory harassment and retaliation with rights and remedies for discrimination that might otherwise go unremedied.