Bill Simkin majored in economics while attending the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1937. He would later report having the good fortune of developed a relationship with Professor George W. Taylor, a famous labor-management arbitrator and in the view of scholars “the father of grievance arbitration.” Simkin became Taylor’s assistant in his mediation and […]
Cyrus Ching was the first Director of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS), serving from 1947 to 1953. In the Spring of 1964 during Jerry Barrett’s orientation to FMCS, he attended a lunch with other new mediators at the historic Occidental Restaurant, where the Cuban missile crisis had been resolved a few years earlier, just […]
1. Three men standing. The man in the center is the famous Jimmy Hoffa, the leader of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). The other two are FMCS mediators. On the left, is Walter Maggiolo, Director of Office of Mediation. The other is C.K. Call, the Regional Director of FMCS in Chicago. Jimmy Hoffa’s son […]