Technical Conciliators of the United States Conciliation Service
Pictured above are Charlie Tilton, Bob Donnahoo, Lou Towers and Yates Heafner, all served as technical conciliators[1]. The U.S. Department…
Category: Blog
The following posts are submitted by Jerome T. Barrett. Dr. Barrett pertaining to his career as a labor mediator, commissioner, and director of the Office of Technical Services of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS).
FMCS Director McCoy Lost his Job to Joe Finnegan
President Eisenhower’s Secretary of Labor James Mitchell (1953–1961) had extensive experience in collective bargaining and labor relations. Early in WW…
Skunk Oil Communication by Major Estes
[1]While working at both USCS and FMCS, Major Charles Estes often emphasized the importance of communication in labor management relations.…
James (Jim) Scearce: FMCS Director One Year and Deputy Three Years
Jim Scearce was a company labor relations representative at Cape Kennedy when he met Bill Usery, a union representative for…
The Remarkable Major Charles T. Estes: Mediator and Scholar
USCS conciliators (mediators) were not writers, and certainly not writers for publication. The same could be said for the…
The Cyrus Ching Conference Room at FMCS
Ching Room 250 E Street SW Washington DC In 1973, FMCS Director Bill Usery dedicated the main FMCS conference room,…
Names and Descriptions of 120 Mediation Techniques
In the early 1950s, three young mediators[1] in Detroit took notes while nine seasoned mediators discussed cases at weekly informal…
Mediator Book Writers
Two outstanding FMCS mediators wrote books on mediation in 1971, and they both wrote second editions of their books in…
The Foreman’s Guide To Labor Relations
The photos above are the pamphlet cover and table of contents of: The Foreman’s Guide to Labor Relations. Developed in…
A Mediator Code of Ethics
The FMCS has mediators work throughout the U.S. A number of States have their own mediation agencies that provide mediation…