About MREP
"Boston Edison and the Utility Workers called on MREP because of MREP's experience in dealing with labor-management strife in the bituminous coal industry. We were not disappointed. MREP assistance enabled us to wipe out a huge backlog of grievances, avoid strikes, and develop a more constructive labor management relationship".
John J. Higgins, Senior Vice President
Boston Edison
MREP is a not-for-profit corporation, founded in 1980 to encourage the use of grievance mediation. The founders of MREP include Bill Hobgood, a former Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service mediator, and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor; Rolf Valtin, former president of the National Academy of Arbitrators; and Stephen Goldberg, professor of law at Northwestern University and author of Getting Disputes Resolved, the best-known study of grievance mediation.
Today, MREP has more than seventy-five trained mediators providing grievance mediation, contract mediation, training, and related services (see MREP Services) across the United States. MREP's mediators are drawn from the top ranks of the labor-management dispute-resolution field. All of them are seasoned mediators; most of them are members of the National Academy of Arbitrators. (Click MREP Mediators for the location of mediators near you.)
To learn more about MREP, click Articles on MREP. To see mediation in action, you can order a videotape from MREP.