I. Robert Feinberg Arbitration Records
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Scope and Contents
Includes over 2500 arbitration awards, decisions and related documents for cases arbitrated primarily in the industries of steel, fur, electronics, transportation, construction, chemicals, aluminum, retail trade, entertainment, television, publishing, wholesale and retail food, paper, shipbuilding, textiles, baking, machinery, and aircraft. Also include arbitration cases in civil service, public education, and public utilities.
Dates
- 1925-1981
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
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Biographical / Historical
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.
Extent
43 cubic feet
Abstract
Arbitration awards, decisions and related documents.
Quantity:
43 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Case files, decisions .
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives 227 Ives Hall Tower Road Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183 kheelref@cornell.edu https://catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel/
- Compiled by:
- Jeff Mintz, May 14, 2012
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, March 18, 2019
- A. Neustadter and Sons, Inc.
- ACF Industries, Inc.
- ACF Industries, Inc. American Car and Foundry Division
- Absenteeism -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Actors' Equity Association
- Alcohol abuse -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Allied Maintenance Company
- Aluminum Company of America
- American Cyanamid Company
- American Federation of Teachers
- American Newspaper Guild
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Aircraft industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Airlines -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Aluminum industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Bakers and bakeries -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Brewing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Chemical industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Civil service -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Construction industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Container industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Education -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Electronic industries -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Entertainment industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Food industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Food service -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Foundries -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Fur trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Glass manufacture -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Grocery trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Insurance companies -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Machine industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Metal-workers -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Newspaper publishing -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Paper industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Printing industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Public utilities -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Publishing -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Radio broadcasting -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Retail trade -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Steel industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Teachers -- New York (State) -- New York
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Telecommunication -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Television broadcasting -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Textile industry -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Transportation -- United States
- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States -- Cases
- Armstrong Cork Company
- Associated Actors and Artistes of America
- Associated Fur Manufacturers
- Bargaining unit -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Bargaining unit -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Ben Eskind, Inc.
- Ben Preffer Company
- Berger and Savage, Inc.
- Bethlehem Steel Corporation
- Bloomingdale's (Firm)
- Building Service Employees' International Union
- Carrier Corporation
- Celanese Corporation of America
- City University of New York
- City University of New York. Legislative Conference
- Clay Furs, Inc.
- Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.
- Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America
- Communications Workers of America
- Continental Can Company
- Contracting out -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Daily Mirror
- Dan Grossman Company
- David Soifer Furs, Inc.
- Debutante Furs, Inc.
- Directors' Guind of America
- Discrimination in employment -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company
- Empire State Telephone Union
- Employee fringe benefits -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employee rights -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employee rules -- United States
- Employees -- Training of -- United States
- Employees, Dismissal of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Employees, Transfer of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Fourrures Sport Walt Stiel Ltd
- Fur workers -- Labor unions -- United States -- Jurisdictional disputes
- Furriers Joint Council of New York
- General Electric Company
- Grievance procedures -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Grievance procedures -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- Grievance procedures -- Steel industry -- United States
- Hours of labor -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America
- Industrial equipment -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Industrial safety -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Insurance Workers International Union
- International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
- International Brotherhood of Paper Makers
- International Chemical Workers Union
- International Typographical Union. No. 6 (New York, N.Y.)
- International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
- International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers
- International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink, and Distillery Workers of America
- International Union, United Automobile Workers of America (A.F. of L.)
- Irving Hans, Inc.
- Irving Katz Company
- J. & L. Kessler, Inc.
- Job security -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Job vacancies -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Labor discipline -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Labor productivity -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Labor unions -- Recognition -- United States
- Layoffs -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Lazar and Wisotzky, Inc.
- League of Off-Broadway Theaters and Producers
- Lehigh Portland Cement Company
- M. Reiner and Sons, Inc.
- Mack Manufacturing
- Management rights -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Marle Harris, Inc.
- Maximillan Fur Company
- Misconduct -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Morris and Sons, Inc.
- National Sugar Refining Company
- National Union Radio Corporation
- New York (N.Y.). Board of Education
- New York Mailers' Union
- New York Papercutters' and Bookbinders' Union
- New York Post Corporation
- New York Printing Pressmen's Union
- New York Telephone Company
- New York Times Company
- Newspaper Guild of New York
- Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union of New York City and Vicinity
- Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers International Union
- Parlin Employees' Association, Inc.
- Performance appraisal -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Perth Amboy Wharf (N.J.)
- Philip Winick Fur Corporation
- Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
- Position classification -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Group
- Promotions -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Prudential Insurance Company of America
- Radio Writers Guild
- Radley Furs, Inc.
- Reigel Paper Corporation
- Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union
- Retirement -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Rochester Telephone Corporation (Rochester, N.Y.)
- Seaboard World Airlines
- Seidler Brothers
- Seniority, Employee -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Seniority, Employee -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Sidney Lambert, Inc.
- Sperry Rand Corporation
- Strikes and lockouts -- Aluminum industry -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Fur trade -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Machine industry -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Printing industry -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Steel industry -- United States
- Strikes and lockouts -- Telecommunication -- United States
- Supplementary employment -- United States
- Transport Workers Union of America
- Unfair labor practices -- United States
- Union security -- Law and legislation -- United States
- United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers International Union
- United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
- United Federation of Teachers
- United Packinghouse Workers of America
- United Papermakers and Paperworkers
- United Press International
- United Steelworkers of America
- United Sugar Refinery Workers
- Vacations, Employee -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Wages -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Wages -- Fur trade -- United States
- Wages -- Shipbuilding industry -- United States
- Wages -- Steel industry -- United States
- West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company
- Western Electric Company
- William Rosenfeld, Inc.
- Work assignments -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
- Working conditions -- Arbitration, Industrial -- United States
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- Title
- I. Feinberg, Robert Arbitration Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Jeff Mintz
- Date
- March 18, 2019
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository