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- Title
Mediation Techniques in Four Countries: Some Common Trends and Differences.
- Authors
Galin, Amira; Krislov, Joseph
- Abstract
It is informed that mediation is the first and most important form of governmental intervention in solving industrial disputes. Most of the literature dealing with mediation describes various techniques, and offers several suggestions regarding the timing of intervention, the extent of the intervention, and the amount of pressure to be employed. However, little empirical evidence supports the validity of these suggestions. This article attempts to examine the attitudes of labor and management personnel regarding mediation techniques in four different industrialized countries: the U.S., Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland, and Israel. All four countries have established a permanent government-sponsored agency to provide mediation services. After a long period of attachment to the U.S. Department of Labor, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) became an independent agency in 1947. In order to participate in a legal strike, a union must notify the FMCS 30 days before the expiration of a contract. The agency is free to intervene at its own discretion. But the FMCS usually intervenes formally only after negotiations have been well under way and only a few issues separate the parties.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INDUSTRIAL mediation; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR disputes; CROSS-cultural studies; MEDIATION; CONFLICT management; UNITED States. Dept. of Labor
- Publication
Labor Studies Journal, 1979, Vol 4, Issue 2, p119
- ISSN
0160-449X
- Publication type
Article