Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's Labor-Management Cooperation Grant Program
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Contact Information
Linda Gray-Broughton, 202-606-8181; lgbroughton@fmcs.gov
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Eligiblity
State, local and tribal governments, institutions of higher education and for-profit organizatons
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Programe Purpose
To improve communication between representatives of labor and management; to provide workers and employers with opportunities to study new and innovative joint approaches to achieving organizational effectiveness; to assist workers and employers in solving problems of mutual concern not susceptible to resolution within the collective bargaining process; to study and explore ways of eliminating potential problems which reduce the competitiveness and inhibit the economic development of the company/plant, area or industry; to enhance the involvement of workers in making decisions that affect their working lives; to expand and improve working relationships between workers and managers; and to encourage free collective bargaining by establishing continuing mechanisms for communication between employers and their employees through federal assistance in the formation and operation of labor-management committees
