The nurse believes that an adequate understanding of arbitration through the traditional collective bargaining unit has been obtained. Which of the following statements supports this belief?
a. "Arbitration is a management technique to discharge an employee.".
b. "Arbitration is useful to resolve conflicts having a basis in the labor-management" contract.
c. "Arbitration is always used before the formal grievance process.".
d. "Arbitration is a process used to establish nursing standards.".
B
Arbitration has also been used to resolve issues involving the "integrity of the bargaining unit.". Arbitrators have been asked to decide whether nurses remain eligible for bargaining unit coverage when jobs are changed and new practice models are implemented. Mediation, arbitration, and fact finding have all been used to resolve conflicts in union contracts. Nurses usually fare well when contract enforcement issues are submitted to an arbitrator and facts, not power or public relations, determine the outcome. Arbitration is used after a formal grievance process has not reached a resolution to the issue. Arbitration does not establish nursing standards because that is the purpose of national organizations to write and develop nursing standards of practice.
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