THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY: A CASE FOR FINAL OFFER SELECTION ARBITRATION
This paper indicates the potential of economic adversities caused by the railroad industry's labor-management problems. The three significant areas are the inadequacies of the Railway Labor Act, the fragmented unions, and the long-run contractions in railroad physical plant and employment. It is recommended that the Railway Labor Act be abolished and railroads and airlines be covered by an amended Taft-Hartley Act calling for application of "final-offer selection" arbitration.
The practice of collective bargaining
The article reviews the book “The Practice of Collective Bargaining,” by Edwin F. Beal and Edward D. Wickersham.
Grievance Procedures for Railroad Operating Employees
This article brings up to date. the experience of the National Railroad Adjustment Board in the performance of its function of arbitrating disputes arising under agreements between the carriers and the operating employees' unions. Since the various studies made about ten years ago (one of which was published in this journal), there have been several significant new developments in NRAB procedures and practices. Although this article reveals a number of procedural aspects that seem to hamper NRAB effectiveness, the author's view is that reforms in the grievance machinery must first occur at the earlier stages through voluntary changes effected by the carriers and the unions. This article is a modification, of a report by the author to the Presidential Railroad Commission during its study of railroad labor problems. Statistical material was obtained for the most part from the First Division of the National Railroad Adjustment Board. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)