PDF
Archive of Grievance Awards by WERC-Employed Arbitrators
View linked lists of PDF grievance
awards by WERC-employed arbitrators issued: [July 1989-December 1998]
[January-December 1999] [January-December 2000] [January 2001-October 2003]
[November
2003-December 2004] [January 2005 on]
[Search WERC website for PDF grievance awards 1989-present]
[Search WisBar HTML database of grievance awards issued July 1989 on]
The grievance awards on this site consist of grievance awards issued by
WERC-employed arbitrators from July, 1989, to the present, with two exceptions.
A few awards have been excluded because they are not public documents based on
trade secret grounds. Several others have been excluded because they constitute
consent awards memorializing agreements reached by the parties, rather than a
determination of the issues by the arbitrator. The awards on this site are in
PDF, and accessible both through linked lists or by means of a search of the
full archive with the State of
To access a PDF archive award using the linked tables, follow the link above to the table of your choice. Because of its, the 1989-98 table may take a few minutes to open. The highlighted links in the table correspond to the .pdf filename of a viewable, printable and downloadable award files in PDF format. Use of the linked lists and of the award files to which they are linked requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software. Installation of that software on the user's computer should enable the user to view, print and perform simple text searches within individual list or interest award files, either on-line or from copies of the PDF files that the user downloads and saves to disk.
The filename of WERC grievance awards corresponds to the agency award number appearing at the bottom right corner of the first page of the document. The user can follow any of the links on the list to view or print the file involved. However, to locate a word or phrase within such a file, however it is necessary to use the Find button on the Acrobat Plug-in toolbar (not your Browser's Find button) for searching PDF files, entering the word or phrase and searching for each occurrence thereof.
To multi-file search the PDF archive of grievance awards on this website using the State website search engine,[click here] The search engine provides a list of citations to files matching the search criteria entered. Follow the link to the file it represents, and then use the Find button on the Acrobat Plug-in toolbar (not your Browser's Find button) for searching PDF files, by entering the word or phrase and searching for each occurrence thereof.
As noted above, the on-line searchable collection of grievance awards issued by WERC-employed arbitrators in and after July, 1989 continues to be available and updated on a monthly basis on the WisBar website.
Cautionary notes: While every effort has been made to provide
accurate and complete decision files, the user should be aware of some possible
limitations on the reliability of these files. Those documents do not
constitute information certified by WERC to be true and correct in all
respects, and they are not official copies of the documents involved. The
official copies of those documents are those on file in hard copy form at the
Commission's
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This page is a public domain communication of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. The URL of this page is {http://werc.wi.gov/pdf_grievance_awards_intro.htm}. Last modified on 05 APR 2005. Comments, questions and suggestions.