LABOR  MEDIATION

Employers who have a unionized workforce within their organization, or those that have been recently organized, have unique and often challenging relationships with their employees and the unions that represent them. Labor unions all over the United States are beginning to see the need and the importance of alternative dispute resolution within the workplace. Lori Matles, Former Commissioner with Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service aka FMCS, has professional expertise with twenty-five years of Industrial and Labor Relations and is familiar with the complexity of the multi-dimensional needs of organizations that employ a unionized workforce and has expertise in the design of systems for alternative dispute resolution. For more information, you may contact:

LORI MATLES, MSILR:  914-666-8882

Lori L. Matles, MSILR is currently Vice President of the Alliance for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Inc. Ms. Matles has been a Mediator for labor and management disputes and negotiations for nineteen years. Expertise in Collective Bargaining includes Rights-Based Negotiations, Interest-Based Problem Solving, and Collaborative Decision Making. Clients include the Labor Management Project, St. Vincent’s Hospital in Staten Island, Cerebral Palsy Association of New York State, New York State Union of Police Associations, New York State United Teachers, Civil Service Employee Association. She also has  created and excuted multiple training programs in Appreciative Inquiry, Teambuilding,  and Relationship by Objectives with the US Postal Service and the National Association of Letter Carriers.

 Lori Matles was selected to begin the US Postal Service REDRESS mediation program in Puerto Rico. She was also selected to serve on the Blue Ribbon Panel of Mediation for the Postal Service and serves on  the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission mediation panel. Ms. Matles serves as a mediator on the panel for the New York State Public Employment Relations Board (PERB).   

Ms. Matles teaches Mediation and Conflict Resolution courses at Hofstra University, Purchase College, Baruch College and teaches at Cornell University School of Industrial Labor Relations. Ms. Matles holds a Masters Degree from Cornell University in Industrial Labor Relations.