Anatomy of a Labor Arbitration

by Sam Kagel

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B001HLPVIC
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

He Wrote the Book...literally

The author of The Anatomy of a Labor Arbitration, Sam Kagel, is often credited with creating mediation arbitration. As of this writing, at age 95, he has been arbitrating disputes longer than anybody else on the planet. His career is legendary. His arbitration awards are simply not overturned in the courts. He has a profound ability to see through confusion, red herrings and red tape, to reduce disputes to core issues and to constrain conflicts to legal and real world parameters. Basically, an arbitrator's job is to tell us exactly what the situation is and the right thing to do, based on his understanding of the subject at hand. In this book, the subject at hand is the arbitration itself and we have a most distinguished arbitrator explaining how to proceed. This works. I was going to use the word `authoritative' here, but when the subject is labor arbitration and the writer is Sam Kagel, the word `authoritative' becomes either an understatement or simply redundant.This little gem of a book is his primer on labor arbitration. He breaks the process down to its basic components and describes them accurately and pragmatically. As is always the case with whatever Sam Kagel has to say, the language is clear, succinct and, above all, meant to be understood. This is plain English -no legalese here. Extensive expertise and concise style produce a narrow volume containing broad information. It is both an overview of the labor arbitration process that you can read in a couple of hours and a how-to manual to which you can refer throughout an entire career. Since this work was first published in 1961, new laws and rules regarding labor arbitration have been crafted. Old ones have been modified. Arbitration decisions and issues have become major media events. The face of labor arbitration has changed noticeably. The face, however, is not the feature of anatomy with which we are concerned here. The Anatomy of a Labor Arbitration deals with the guts of the matter. I own several books and handbooks on this subject that have been written since the time `Anatomy' was first published. I have read several others and have even written one myself. Most of these decades-newer treatises refer to or actually use material from Kagel's book. Why? Because the basics are still the basics. These fundamentals are timeless. Today, two generations later, The Anatomy of a Labor Arbitration is still the place to begin reading about the subject.