[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR901.3]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                INDUSTRY COLLECTIVE BARGAINING COMMISSION
 
PART 901--POLICY STATEMENT ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING DISPUTES AND APPLICABLE 
PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 901.3  Participation by Commission.

    (a) The Commission will consider participation in specific disputes 
which conform with the following criteria:
    (1) The disputes will have a significant impact on construction 
activity in the area involved.
    (2) The dispute concerns negotiations for a new or expiring 
agreement, or a question of interpretation or application of an existing 
agreement, where all other internal methods of resolution have been 
exhausted.
    (b) The Commission will normally refrain from participating in 
specific disputes where;
    (1) The dispute involved concerns jurisdiction of work.
    (2) The parties have failed to utilize an independent disputes 
handling procedure presently in existence or subsequently established. 
(A number of such procedures exists currently in several branches of the 
industry.)
    (3) The parties have not fully utilized the service of the Federal 
Mediation and Conciliation Service.
    (c) In setting forth a disputes procedure the Commission emphasizes 
that it is not intended to provide a substitute for the collective 
bargaining process. Nor is it a means to bypass or neglect existing 
mediation facilities or industry branch dispute settling procedures. The 
standard procedure for the Commission to accept cognizance over a 
collective bargaining dispute is through referral to the Commission by 
the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. The 
Commission will exercise its judgment in accepting or declining specific 
disputes. The staff of the Commission is directed to maintain close 
contact with the

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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service on all aspects of bargaining 
in the construction industry and to see that critical disputes are 
brought to the attention of the appropriate International Union and the 
national offices of an appropriate contractor association.