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Arbitrator Joshua Javits
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Arbitration · Mediation ·
Training · Ombudsman · System Design · Fact-Finding
JOSHUA M. JAVITS
MEDIATOR
AND ARBITRATOR
for labor-management, employment, pension, commercial, contract, personal
injury, and other disputes. Memberships and Panels:
§ International
Monetary Fund – Chair, Grievance Committee (2007-2011)
§ National Academy of Arbitrators (Member)
§ Society of Federal
Labor Relations Professionals
§ American Arbitration
Association (AAA)(Labor Arbitration Panel)
§ Federal Mediation and
Conciliation Service (FMCS)(Labor Arbitration Panel)
§ National Mediation
Board (NMB)(Arbitration Panel)
§
United
States Postal Service/National Association of Letter Carriers/APWU
§
Major League Baseball Players Assn.:
Player-Agent Fee Disputes
§ Office of Collective
Bargaining (New York City)
§ New York State Employment Relations
Board
§ Attorney-Client
Arbitration Board (Washington,
D.C.)
§ Civil
Mediator—District of Columbia
Superior Courts
§ Mediator—United
States District Court for District of Columbia
§ Delta/ALPA
§ Internal Revenue
Service/Nat’l Treasury Employees Union
§ NYS Dept. of
Education/United Federation of Teachers
§ Northwest
Airlines/Int’l Assn of Machinists/AFA
§ Port Authority
Employment Relations Panel/PBA
§ Continental
Airlines/ALPA/IAM
§ United Parcel
Service/Int’l Bro.Teamsters, Local 2727/IPA(Pilots)
§ Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority/OPEIU
§ British Airways/IAMAW
§ US Airways/IAMAW/AFA
§ Washington Hospital
Center/Nurses United
§ Alaska Airlines/IAMAW
§ Comptroller of the
Currency/NTEU
§ Hotel Assn. of Washington, DC/UNITE
HERE Local 25
§ Department
of Labor/AFGE L. 12
§ International
Broadcast Bureau/AFGE L. 12
§ ABX Air/APA
§ Presidential
Emergency Board 242 (2007) – AMTRAK and 8 Unions
§ Spirit Airlines/ALPA
§ Union Pacific
RR/BRC-TCU/BLET
§ PBGC/UPE
§ Social Security
Administration/AFGE L. 1923
Ford
& Harrison llp, Partner (1993 to 2001)
Partner with Ford
& Harrison, a 150-attorney firm located in 10 cities practicing labor and
employment law. Engaged in collective bargaining negotiations, arbitration, and
litigation of labor and employment law matters on behalf of management.
Represented local governments, regional authorities, and “privatized” entities.
Served as executive director of the Labor Relations Association of Passenger
Railroads.
Presidential appointee responsible for
administering the Railway Labor Act governing labor relations in the airline
and railroad industries. Handled numerous collective bargaining and
representation disputes. Responsible for other duties, including budget,
congressional testimony, and administration of the federal arbitration program.
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Labor-Management Arbitrator (1985 to 1988)
Arbitrator of record in more than 100 cases.
Served on numerous arbitration panels, including the AAA, FMCS, NMB, and
several private-sector panels. Also performed non-labor Corporate law as an
Associate with Cades
Schutte Fleming & Wright.
Mulholland & Hickey, (1983 to 1985)
Attorney engaged in labor and employment law
litigation in federal and state courts and before agencies on behalf of labor
organizations. Specialized in public sector and transportation industry
matters. Responsible attorney in several employment discrimination class action
cases.
Trial attorney engaged in enforcing federal
labor laws. Litigated in federal courts and before administrative law Judges.
Presided as hearing officer and drafted representation case reports and
decisions. Investigated unfair labor practice and election misconduct charges
in various industries, including steel, mining, transportation, hotel, health
care, food, construction, entertainment, publishing, and communications.
Adjunct Professor (1990 to 2002)
Georgetown University Law
Center: Courses for
Graduate LLM program:
§ Alternative Dispute
Resolution in Employment and Labor Law
§ Labor Arbitration
§ Transportation Labor
Law
Selected Publications
·
US
Airline Labor Relations, Speech to EU-US Aviation Forum on Liberalisation and
Labour Organized by the European Commission, Washington, DC, December 3, 2008
·
“Becalming
Brewing Battles: Airline Collective Bargaining,” NAA Proceedings, (May 2007)
·
“A
Neutral’s Perspective on Presidential Emergency Boards,” and “Emergency Board
Procedures under Sections 9A and 10 of the Railway Labor Act,” materials for
ALI-ABA course on Airline and Railroad Labor and Employment Law, April, 2006
·
How Arbitration Works, Elkouri &
Elkouri, Board of Editors – Contributor, 6th Ed.
·
“Airline
Collective Bargaining: Reform or Reframe,” J. Trans. Law, Logis & Pol’y
(Spr. 2003)
·
“Crisis Negotiations” World
Arbitration and Mediation Report (May 2002)
·
“It’s the Real Thing: $192.5 Million,” SHRM Legal Report (March–April 2001)
§ “The Mother of All
Mediations,” World Arbitration and
Mediation Report (December 2000)
§ “Emergency Board
Procedures Under the Railway Labor Act” and “Crisis
Negotiations: How Labor and Management Can Best Navigate Major Changes in the
Midterm Contract Period,” materials for ALI-ABA course on Airline and Railroad
Labor and Employment Law, April 2002
§ “Mandatory
Arbitration and Labor Not Ideal Mix,” National
Law Journal (June 26, 2000)
§ “Mediation’s On—Grab
a Spoon,” HR Magazine (April 2000)
§ “High Court to
Revisit Issue of Mandatory Arbitration,” National
Law Journal (October 5, 1998)
§ “The Virtue of
Limited Engagement,” Journal of Commerce
(May 15, 1997)
§ “Collective
Bargaining in a Global Environment,” 62 J.Transp.L. 187 (1995)
§ Chapter 11 in Airline Labor Relations in the Global
Era: The New Frontier,” ed. Peter Cappelli (Ithaca, N.Y.: ILR
Press/Cornell University Press, 1995)
§ “Settling Airline
Labor Disputes,” Journal of Commerce
(February 10, 1994)
§ “A Collective Bargaining Analysis,” Air Line Pilot (June 1992)
Education
Georgetown University Law
Center, J.D.,
1978
Law Review: Law and Policy in
International Business, Editor, 1977–1978
Yale College, B.A. (Economics), 1972
Training
§ Mediation Training,
76 hours, Northern Virginia Mediation Service, 2001
§ Interest-Based
Bargaining, 16 hours, National Mediation Board, 1999–2000
§ Civil Mediation
Training, 28 hours, District of Columbia Superior Court, 2001
§ Mediation Training,
16 hours, U.S. District Court for District
of Columbia, 2001
Bar
Admissions
California; New
York; District of
Columbia
Ratings
“AV”—Highest
Rating—Martindale Hubbell; Best Lawyers
in America,
2001–2012
D.R.S. is
a professional Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") firm dedicated
to providing its clients with cost-effective resolution of disputes as well as
conflict prevention, system design, training and fact-finding. The firm is led
by Joshua Javits, an arbitrator and mediator with over 30 years of experience
in ADR.
Arbitration Coming to
final and binding resolution of employment disputes by a neutral third party. Mr.
Javits sits on 40 neutral arbitration panels and has arbitrated over 1,500
cases.
