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Premier National Conference on Collective Bargaining and Conflict Resolution Set for Labor Day Period
What promises to be a unique public discussion of the past, present and future of conflict resolution and collective bargaining in America will convene the day after Labor Day in Washington, D.C. A two-day symposium, entitled "50 Years in Conflict Resolution: A Celebration of the Future," will be highlighted by a distinguished assembly of top corporate, international union, academic and government leaders. The event commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.
Anniversary Co-Chairs AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, Anheuser Busch Chairman and CEO August A. Busch III and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) Director John Calhoun Wells announced the speakers and participants in the national symposium, set for Tuesday and Wednesday, September 2 and 3 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Symposium participants will attend workshops focusing on the past, present and future of Arbitration, Collective Bargaining in the Private, Public and Federal Sectors and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Attendees will hear such prominent plenary speakers as former U.S. Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall, MIT Sloan School of Management Professor and author Tom Kochan, Kent Wong, Director of UCLA's Center for Labor Research and Education and former New Jersey Governor James Florio, Co-Chair of the U.S. Secretary of Labor's Task Force on Excellence in State and Local Government Through Labor-Management Cooperation.
- M O R E - Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman and House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Edward Porter have also been invited to address plenary sessions, and President William J. Clinton has been asked to speak at the symposium banquet on Tuesday evening.
"This FMCS 50th Anniversary symposium will be an important gathering of union, business, government and academic leaders and practitioners in the fields of labor-management relations and conflict resolution," said FMCS Director Wells. "We have structured a program to offer our attendees a great diversity of insight and perspective on significant issues affecting the working men and women of America, and the companies and organizations for which they work."
Tuesday's sessions will concentrate on the development of the mediation process in collective bargaining between companies and their employee unions, and its expansion into contract negotiations and workplace issues involving local, state and federal employees. On Wednesday, the speakers and workshops will focus on what lies ahead in labor-management relations, collective bargaining and conflict resolution. The registration fee for the symposium is $175.
FMCS mediates collective bargaining contract disputes, conducts joint labor-management training aimed at building better workplace relationships between firms and unions, provides arbitration services to resolve disputes over contract provisions or interpretation, offers conflict resolution service and systems design to local, state and federal governments, and provides training and technical assistance in labor-management relations, mediation and conflict resolution to other countries. Congress created FMCS as an independent agency of the United States government in August, 1947. |
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