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- Title
STATEMENT OF KAY McMURRAY Director, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
- Authors
McMurray, Kay
- Abstract
The article focuses on the testimony of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director, Kay McMurray at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the proposed Administrative Dispute Resolution Act of 1988, held May 25, 1988. The FMCS has nearly 40 years of experience in providing mediation and arbitration assistance in labor disputes. The FMCS was established in 1947 specifically to mediate labor-management disputes. FMCS also assists parties to resolve problems outside the crisis atmosphere of contract negotiations through preventative mediation and consultation. FMCS provides mediation services in about 8,500 cases each year and, in the vast majority, the parties are able to resolve their dispute without resort to a strike or a lockout. FMCS mediation is voluntary, that is, it has no power, other than the power of persuasion, to make the parties meet or to reach agreement. And yet, perhaps because the mediator does not have power and cannot dictate the terms of a settlement, both labor and management welcome the assistance of a mediator.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MCMURRAY, Kay; UNITED States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary Committee; UNITED States. Federal Mediation &; Conciliation Service; LABOR disputes; DISPUTE resolution
- Publication
Arbitration Journal, 1988, Vol 43, Issue 3, p32
- ISSN
0003-7893
- Publication type
Article