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The NLRB's Unfair Labor Practice Settlement Program: An Empirical Analysis Of Participant Satisfaction - Chapter 22 - AAA Handbook on Labor Arbitration & ADR, 3rd Edition

Author(s): 
Lamont E. Stallworth
Arup Varma
John T. Delaney
Page Count: 
16 pages
Published: 
May, 2016
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Lamont Stallworth is a Professor at the Institute of Human Resources and Industrial Relations at Loyola University in Chicago. He is also the Founder and Chair of the Center for Employment Dispute Resolution.

Arup Varma is a Professor at the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago.
 
John T. Delaney is Dean Emeritus and a Professor at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Originally from: AAA Handbook on Labor Arbitration and ADR - Third Edition

 

CHAPTER 22

THE NLRB’S UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE SETTLEMENT PROGRAM: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF PARTICIPANT SATISFACTION

Lamont Stallworth, Arup Varma and John T. Delaney

I. Introduction

For more than a century, unions and employers in the United States have had a stormy relationship. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)  created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in part to stabilize labor-management relations by facilitating the collective bargaining process between unions and employers. The NLRA’s broad, remedial purpose, as stated in Section 1, is to eliminate imbalances in bargaining power and ensure that the process by which such agreements are reached are fair and equitable. However, over the years, attempts to solve these labor-management disputes have remained emotional and bitterly contested.