First Name: Initial: Last Name: Suffix: Arbitrator Since: Howard C. Edelman 1982

Arbitration/Mediation Experience

Full-time arbitrator in private and public sectors, including health care, building service, entertainment, printing, utilities, state and municipal employees, transit and teachers. Instructor for the NYS SILR. Arbitrated over 4500 disputes since 1982.

Panels/Permanent Arbitrator

United Parcel Service and IBT National; A & P and Local 342; NYS and PEF,UUP, CSEA; NJS and CWA; ABC-TV and NABET; Con Ed and Utility Workers; League of Resident Theaters and Actors' Equity; Brookhaven Memorial Hospital and Federation of Nurses; Building Services Industry and SEIU; NYCTA and SSA; LIU and CW Post Collegial Federation; Port Authority and PBA; Suffolk County and Correction Officers; Beth Israel Hospital and 1199.

Issues/Industries

Discharge, discipline, job incentives, management rights, promotion and upgrading, salary and fringe benefits, seniority, subcontracting, transfer.

Work History

Arbitrator, Self-employed, 1982-Present; Director/Representative, NYS United Teachers, 1972-1982; Teacher, Great Neck Public Schools, 1966-1972.

Education

Brooklyn College (BA - 1964); University of Wisconsin (MA- 1965); NY Law School (JD, valedictorian - 1982).

Professional Affiliations