John Danforth: “on April 6, 1994, the Commission for the Future of Worker/Management Relations, or, as it is more commonly known, the…”

“on April 6, 1994, the Commission for the Future of Worker/Management Relations, or, as it is more commonly known, the Dunlop Commission, will hold hearings to gather information so that it can make recommendations on improvements in labor law reform. The Commission is headed by former Department of Labor Secretary and Harvard professor John Dunlop. The Commission, which was formed by Secretaries Reich and Brown, has been asked to provide answers to three questions. On April 6 it will hear testimony regarding the following question: What (if anything) should be done to increase the extent to which work-place problems are directly resolved by the parties themselves, rather than through recourse to State and Federal courts and Government regulatory bodies? A measure which I introduced in the last Congress and intend to reintroduce upon our return from the upcoming recess directly addresses this question. This measure, the Employment Dispute Resolution Act, is designed to provide an alternative to litigating employment discrimination claims. When I first introduced this measure in 1992, it was needed to ease the burden on the already overloaded court system and EEOC. Since that time, the plight of the courts and the EEOC has become steadily worse, and the need for this measure has become even more desperate.”