I. Robert Feinberg Arbitration Records

Feinberg was a lawyer, arbitrator, mediator, and adjunct provessor of law at New York University.



Irving Robert Feinberg was the managing partner in the New York law firm of Guggenheimer and Untermyer at the time of his death. Feinberg was graduate of New York University (1932) and the NYU Law School (1934) and served his alma mater as an adjunct professor of law. Feinberg's primary career interest was labor arbitration. He served as assistant general counsel and chairman of the Appeals Committee of the National War Labor Board from 1943-1945, as vice chairman of the New York Regional War Labor Board in 1945, and as chairman of the Enforcement Commission of the National Wage Stabilization Commission in 1951-1952. Impartial chairman for the fur industry since 1968, Feinberg served also on arbitration panels for the Actors' Equity Association and the League of New York Theaters, the NYC Board of Education and the United Federation of Teachers, panels in the aircraft and shipping industries, and others.



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Born January 3, 1912. Attended New York University (B.S., 1932, J.D., 1934); New York University Law Graduate School (1935).



Formerly assistant general counsel, National War Labor Board, 1942-1945; chairman, Appeals Committee, National War Labor Board, 1945; Vice-Chairman, War Labor Board, 2nd Region (1945); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law, New York University Law School, 1952-; public and panel member, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, American Arbitration Association, and New York State Mediation Board; consultant, National Wage Stabilization Board; chairman Regional Enforcement Commission, National Wage Stabilization Board; served as arbitrator in shipbuilding, textile, restaurant, food, retail department stores, baking, aluminum, machinery, chemical, paper, radio, public utilities, fur, aircraft, steel and many other industries.



Affiliated with the Industrial Relations Research Association; National Academy of Arbitrators (vice president and former member of Board of Governors); New York and American Bar Associations; former chairman, Committee on Labor and Social Security Legislation, New York City Bar Association; former chairman, Labor Law Section, New York City Bar Association.



Umpire for Bethlehem Steel Co. and Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers, 1949-60; impartial chairman, Publishers Association of New York and Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union of New York and Vicinity, 1949-50; impartial chairman, Marine Engineers Beneficial Association and American Merchant Marine Institute, 1955-; Impartial Chairman International Typographical Workers Union and N.Y. Post, 1963-; Impartial Chairman, Phelps Dodge Corporation and United Steelworkers of America 1961-; Impartial Chairman, Associated Fur Manufacturers, Inc. and Furriers Joint Council of New York City, 1968-75.



Died Aguust 5, 1975.