Experienced Labor Arbitrator
FMCS Labor Arbitrator
Arbitrator David E. Wilson
With over Forty years of years of labor and employee relations experience in the manufacturing, automotive, mining, packaging , distributon transportation, foundry and chemical industries I provide a fair and balanced perspective to labor arbitration. Starting on the factory floor as a production worker, I have also held first line supervisory and second shift superintendent positions in manufacturing and distribution. While working full time as a Labor Relations Manager I attentdd law school at night earninig my Juris Doctorate degree.
Upon admission to the Bar I joined Eagle Picher Industires. At that time Eagle Picher was a diversified manufacturing company with 50 plants in the United States serving the automotive, chemical and industrial markets.
While at Eagle Picher I negotiated over 40 labor agreements with the United Auto Workers, Teamsters, Steelworkers, Graphic Communication Wokrkrs, Ironworkers and Operating Engineers Unions. In addition I served as first chair in numerous arbitrations and negotiated settlements of hundreds of griveances during my career.The combination of my knowledge of contract interpretation principles and due process in discipline and discharge cases and my work experience enables me to bring an understanding of the dynamics of the shop floor to the arbitration process.
- Member FMCS Labor Arbitration Panel
- National Mediation Board Arbitrator
- Certified Employment Law Mediator-Cornell University and the Alliance for Dispute Resolution.
- Admitted to OhioState Bar
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EDUCATION
- Northern Kentucky University - Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Juris Doctorate (1982)
- Miami University, Oxford, OH - Bachelor of Science (1976)
TRAINING and CERTIFICATION
- Certified Employment Law Mediator, Alliance for Dispute Resolution - Cornell University (2001)
- FMCS New Labor Arbitrator training program (2002)
Fees and Policies
- Per diem rate is $1,100 for hearing days and for research and preparation of the award. A hearing day is up to eight hours. Hearing days in excess of eight hours and time for research and preparation of the award are prorated.
- If the hearing is cancelled or adjourned with noticue of less than twenty-one (21) calendar days, the per diem for each day of hearing scheduled shall be charged unless another matter can be scheduled in its place.
- Expenses: Actual costs of reasonable expenses including airfare (lowest fare available), car rental, food and lodging. Automobile mileage is charged at the current IRS rate.
- Travel time: $137.50 per hour is charged for travel time up to four hours. Travel longer than four hours is charged at the per diem rate. Travel time and mileage are calculated from the billing address closest to the hearing location. There is no charge for travel within a 50 mile radiu of Cincinnati, Ohio.