Federal and State Labor Relations Boards

• Main page of the National Labor Relations Board -- http://www.nlrb.gov/
• Main page of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service -- http://www.fmcs.gov/internet/
• Home page of the Maine Labor Relations Board, serving public sector employees and employers in Maine -- http://janus.state.me.us/mlrb/

Research into Labor Law and Arbitration Decisions

A very informative article on “Researching Labor Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Employment” by Suzanne Thorpe and Laura J. Cooper, originally published at 91(2) Law Library Journal 367 (Spring 1999), can be found online at http://www.llrx.com/features/adr.htm. This site has links to several collections of arbitration decision summaries.

And, of course, the gold standard for arbitration decisions are two competing publications, neither of which is online:  CCH, Labor Arbitration Awards (looseleaf volume) and/or Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. [BNA] 1946 -- , Labor Arbitration Reports. BNA is available also in CD-ROM format and online at http://laborandemploymentlaw.bna.com/ (this is a subscription service that charges) and has a good topical index.

A description of Westlaw arbitration databases relating to Federal Government labor-management cases:  http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/law/lawtips/westarbitrationdbs.htm

For finding recent Supreme Court decisions, Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute has a searchable collection of decisions from 1992 onwards and a topically arranged list of case summaries for the current term: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html

The Next Big Conference

The Twenty-ninth Annual Conference on Public Sector Labor Relations Law, sponsored by the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission and the New Jersey State Bar Association, Friday, April 24, 2009, East Brunswick, N.J.: http://www.state.nj.us/perc/html/conference_announcement.htm