Federal Government Links

As observed by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GOA) in 1980, the FMCS was created under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act “to promote industrial peace and the nation’s economic welfare by resolving labor disputes through collective bargaining.”   See GOA Statement, dated 10/30/80, located at https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-81-14 (last accessed 12/11/25).

To meet its statutory purpose, the FMCS has historically provided free- or low-cost mediation services, arbitrator selection and appointment services, and ADR and collective bargaining training to labor professionals in both private and public sectors, and to all levels of government.

At present, some or many of FMCS services may be curtailed, however, due to executive action(s) or budgetary issues.  Click here to learn more about the status of the FMCS as of 12/21/2025.

Other Labor-Related Associations and Materials

• Harvard University, Labor Law Research Guide: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/law/labor_law#s-lg-page-section-5515270 (curates various statutes, regulatory agencies, treatises, journals, and research aids that “focus on…collective bargaining in both the private and public sectors”).”
• The Rocky Mountain Employer: Labor & Employment Law Updates, https://www.rockymountainemployersblog.com/ (includes summaries and linked PDFs of recent notable labor-related court decisions affecting the Rocky Mountain region).”
• S. Barry Paisner and Michelle R. Hauber-Barela, Correcting the Imbalance: The New Mexico Public Employee Bargaining Act and the Statutory Rights Provided to Public Employees, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 357 (2007), https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/nmlr/vol37/iss2/5/ (this article is of some historical interest, although many of the changes urged were implemented with the 2020 amendments).”
• Federman, P. S., Viswanath, S., & Riccucci, N. M. (2024). Public Sector Collective Bargaining: A Meta-Review. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X231216946 (“Systematically coding 220 articles from the top fifteen (mainstream) peer-reviewed public administration journals over a period of 50 years (1970–2020),…to map trends and gaps in local, state, and federal public sector collective bargaining scholarship…”)
• UC Berkeley Labor Center, David Rosenfeld and Jolene Kramer (5th Ed., 2021): “Hey, The Boss Just Called Me Into the Office!’: The Weingarten Decision and the Right to Representation on the Job”
• NAA Proceedings, John E. Dunsford, Arbitral Discretion: The Tests of Just Cause (1989)
• NAA Proceedings, Richard Mittenthal and M. David Vaughn, “Working at the Margins of Just Cause: The Never-Ending Dispute over Arbitral Discretion on the Discharge Penalty” (2006)
• “The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy” (2024)”

Other State Labor Boards’ Searchable Databases

Additionally, the following State or City Labor Boards maintain a searchable database of their written decisions online:

Revised on 12/08/2025