Synopsis
This book addresses the issues encompassing any management activity involving the human element where the collective and individual attitudes of all concerned bear decisively on survivability in competition for the world marketplace. The sage wisdom is valuable for anyone charged with the administration of human resources, whether those persons are management, affiliated with a labor union, or are neutral practitioners, whether the setting is the private sector or the public sector, whether the workforce is organized or not.
About the Author:
During his tenure as president of the United Financial Employees, Local 205 of the Office Employees, Keefe orchestrated the Great Wall Street Strike of 1948. He later joined the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, served as a labor relations educator at two universities, and became industrial relations manager at Aurora Gasoline (Marathon Oil). A member of the National Academy of Arbitrators, Keefe has heard thousands of arbitration cases in both the private and public sectors. Keefe’s Labor-Management Dispute Settlement Institute has provided nationwide seminars on every topic of labor relations.
Other books by the Author:
How to Successfully Conduct Labor Relations
Attendance at Work Controls
How to Make the Contract Work at the Steward-Foreman Level
Due Process and Procedure in Disciplinary Cases
About the Author
Merritt David Keefe, Jr. spent his entire life in labor relations, hands-on in every aspect of the profession. He organized fellow clerks on the New York Stock Exchange into a union in the 1940s. Serving as President of the United Financial Employees Union, Local 205 of the OEIU, AFL, he negotiated numerous contracts with the Exchanges and brokerages on Wall Street. In 1947 he led a strike against the New York Cotton Exchange, and in 1948 he led a strike against the New York Stock and Curb Exchanges. He later became Special Representative to AFL President William Green. With Green’s blessing and encouragement, he joined the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), and was assigned the post of Commissioner (mediator) at its Detroit office. Leaving the FMCS after years of service, he served as Industrial Relations Manager for Aurora Gasoline Company (later acquired by Marathon Oil). He also represented numerous small manufacturing companies in the handling of their labor relations. He taught labor relations at University of Detroit and Wayne State University. Arbitrating since 1960, he was inducted into the National Academy of Arbitrators in 1966. Over his career, he heard some 6,000 cases. He invented Speaker Phone Arbitration which allowed the Parties the full benefits of traditional arbitration without the need for travel, and also developed an approach to Printing Pressman disputes with the Detroit newspapers, in which he would render an on the spot telephonic decision to avoid a print stoppage. Founder of the Labor Management Dispute Settlement Institute, he produced a series of videotapes capturing the wisdom of America’s labor leaders for use in nationally distributed educational seminars and symposia. The author of a number of books on labor relations, his signal work, “How to Successfully Conduct Labor Relations” remains solid guidance to this day.
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