[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 29, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 29CFR1403.2]

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                             TITLE 29--LABOR
 
                        AND CONCILIATION SERVICE
 
PART 1403_FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1403.2  Policies of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

    It is the policy of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service:
    (a) To facilitate and promote the settlement of labor-management 
disputes through collective bargaining by encouraging labor and 
management to resolve differences through their own resources.
    (b) To encourage the States to provide facilities for fostering 
better labor-management relations and for resolving disputes.
    (c) To proffer its services in labor-management disputes in any 
industry affecting commerce, except as to any matter which is subject to 
the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended, either upon its own 
motion or upon the request of one or more of the parties to the dispute, 
whenever in its judgment such dispute threatens to cause a substantial 
interruption to commerce.
    (d) To refrain from proffering its services:
    (1) In labor-management disputes affecting intrastate commerce 
exclusively,
    (2) In labor-management disputes having a minor effect on interstate 
commerce, if State or other conciliation services are available to the 
parties, or
    (3) In a labor-management dispute when a substantial question of 
representation has been raised, or to continue to make its facilities 
available when a substantial question of representation is raised during 
the negotiations.
    (e) To proffer its services in any labor-management dispute directly 
involving Government procurement contracts necessary to the national 
defense, or in disputes which imperil or threaten to imperil the 
national health or safety.
    (f) To proffer its services to the parties in grievance disputes 
arising over the application or interpretation of an existing 
collective-bargaining agreement only as a last resort and in exceptional 
cases.