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Article: Teachers' strike should be settled by binding arbitration
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 23, 1987
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Astrong case for binding arbitration can be made in the Chicago
teachers' strike.
The premise behind binding arbitration is that the crucial
nature of the services rendered by the employees requires such a
procedure. To balance the interests of employees and the public an
arbitration panel, chaired by a neutral, is usually given binding
authority under guidelines provided by the state Legislature to
impose a solution upon employer and union.
(In Illinois, however, a governing body such as the City
Council has authority to review and reject arbitration awards,
thereby triggering another round of arbitration.)
Employers in states where impasse arbitration is truly final
sometimes ...