Harold W. Davey

The Arbitrator Views the Industrial Engineer

An experienced arbitrator offers some guideposts to industrial engineers and managers to aid their understanding of arbitration. The industrial engineer who does his job well may never have to face an arbitrator.

L'arbitrato delle controversie di lavoro nel sistema contrattuale nord-americano

President Goulart by his nickname Jango without quotation marks, or with accenting peronismo, but these are minor matters that can slip into any book, and especially one of this size. It might have been better to stick to either the English or the foreign names of organizations and not first one and then the other. The reviewer has never heard of the Spanish word comerciarios (p. 205). There is no bibliography, and the reader can quickly see why when he refers to the notes at the end of the book. It would indeed have been a difficult ask to work up a bibliography on this subject. To this reviewer the section on Argentina is better than the one on Brazil and certainly more to the point of discussing labor relations, especially the part on the Peron era, a specialty of Mr. Alexander. However, perhaps the best section is the one on Chile, the reason for which, we might venture to conjecture, being that Chile has had a long period of experience in labor relations and an older social security system than the other two countries. Mr. Alexander has put much into the book, calling generously upon his fifteen years of interest and experience in Latin American labor developments. He not only uses documents and other literature on the subject extensively, but interviewed literally hundreds of people: labor leaders, local and foreign business people, government workers and officials, and political and educational leaders. It will be difficult for anyone else to write a more comprehensive work on the same subject, and it is to be hoped that other Latin American labor relations will be studied in the same efficacious manner.

Labor arbitration: A current appraisal

Although arbitration provisions are included today in nearly all union-management agreements, disagreements and problems still are prevalent in the use of arbitration procedures. In this discussion, recent progress in acceptance and utilization of arbitration techniques is examined, and unresolved problems and issues are analyzed. The author concludes that the future outlook for grievance arbitration is optimistic. (Authors abstract courtesy EBSCO.)