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Collaboration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Office (CADRO) | FLRA Jump to Navigation FLRA.gov U.S. Federal Labor RelationsValidityRSS FEEDS Search form Search Menu eFilingAvailable Here HomeWell-nighIntroduction to the FLRA Mission Budget & Performance Organizational Chart FLRA Leadership Press Releases Public Affairs Featured Topics Our Mission Protecting rights and facilitating stable relationships among federal agencies, labor organizations, and employees while up-and-coming an constructive and efficient government through the wardship of the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.   Feedback well-nigh www.FLRA.gov Let us know what you think well-nigh our new and improved website by emailing us at EngagetheFLRA@flra.gov. 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You are hereHomeComponents & OfficesOffices Collaboration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Office (CADRO) Collaboration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Office (CADRO) What we do CADRO creates value by helping agencies and unions increasingly powerfully perform their mission, modernize quality of work life, and mend labor-management relationships.   CADRO training and facilitation services help prevent problems from arising, help parties increasingly powerfully make important decisions and solve difficult problems when they arise, and help parties develop and maintain constructive, collaborative relationships.   CADRO intervention and dispute-resolution services offer parties an informal, voluntary, and confidential way to minimize risks and increase opportunities to successfully resolve arbitration exceptions, negotiability disputes, post‑complaint unfair-labor-practice (ULP) cases pending surpassing FLRA Administrative Law Judges, joint bargaining matters, and other workplace disputes.   Email the CADRO staff at CADRO@flra.gov or undeniability (202) 218-7933 to request assistance or information.  MediationExceptions and Negotiability AppealsMediationExceptions.  Federal agencies and unions can request final mediation awards to the FLRA on specific, narrow grounds.  These appeals are tabbed "exceptions."  See the Authority's Guide to Arbitration.  At any point during the exceptions process, the parties can voluntarily stipulate to use CADRO assistance to resolve the exceptions. Negotiability Appeals.  Federal-sector unions can file a negotiability appeal with the FLRA to rencontre an agency's requirement that the union's proposals are undisciplined to law, rule, or regulation, or an organ head's disapproval of negotiated contract language. See the Authority's Guide to Negotiability.  At any point without the union files its negotiability appeal, the parties can voluntarily stipulate to use CADRO assistance to resolve the negotiability disputes and related bargaining-obligation disputes.  And most parties do. Under the CADRO umbrella, a team of FLRA process and substance experts help parties voluntarily resolve well-nigh 200 legal questions per year that upspring in mediation exceptions and negotiability appeals.  The CADRO team helps parties identify the issues that must be resolved, assess the strengths and weaknesses of their case, explore possible solutions, and usually resolve the specimen in a mutually tranquil manner.  They most often do so using a quicker, less costly, and less risky tideway than the litigation that brought them to the FLRA.  At the referendum of the parties, they moreover can go vastitude the legal questions and solve the underlying problems that litigation often ignores.   Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) Settlement Judge Program The CADRO Director serves as the settlement official for most cases in which parties elect to utilize the FLRA's Settlement Judge Program.  Withoutthe General Counsel issues a ULP complaint, and the Office of Administrative Law Judges (OALJ) sets a hearing date, the General Counsel, a union, or an organ representative can ask the OALJ to assign a settlement official to help resolve the case. The settlement official will schedule a settlement priming with the parties, usually prior to the filing of prehearing disclosures.  During the conference, the settlement official helps the parties explore ways to reach a negotiated resolution to the case.  For this reason, the settlement official normally requires that the representative for each party be present at the settlement priming and that persons with full settlement validity be present or misogynist by telephone.  The settlement official does not discuss any speciality of the specimen with the hearing Judge.  Section 2423.25(d) of the Authority’s Regulations describes the Settlement Judge Program and provides that no vestige regarding statements, conduct, offers of settlement, and concessions of the parties made in proceedings surpassing the settlement official are open-door in any proceeding surpassing the OALJ or the Authority, except by stipulation of the parties. Custom Training Services Some of the most important work performed by the CADRO staff is to help labor and management representatives reap the knowledge, skills, and skills necessary to grow healthy workplace relationships, prevent workplace problems from interfering with the mission and quality of work life, and solve problems without third-party intervention.   With rare exception, CADRO only offers its training services jointly to labor and management.  But, due to Congressional mandate, the FLRA cannot winnow reimbursement for services from a non-federal source.  So management bears solely any out-of-pocket costs. CADRO training services include: Labor-Management Relations (LMR) Assessment and Action Planning LMR Repair & Improvement Labor-Management Collaboration and Interest-Based Problem Solving (IBPS)  ​Other types of training are misogynist from other FLRA offices and through the FLRA's online resources.  See the Training Page on this website.  Facilitation Services Facilitation is a process in which someone with no stake in the outcome -- a facilitator -- helps participants to succeed goals by managing group processes.   Facilitators offer structure, and help participants to develop ground rules and remain focused.  As needed, facilitators manage discussion, group dynamics, conflict, communication, problem solving, and decision-making processes.  Effective facilitators unchangingly indulge participants to determine content and make the decisions. CADRO offers facilitation services during joint meetings of federal agencies and unions, including:  Labor-Management Forums Problem Solving & Decision Making Sessions Leadership MeetingsJointBargaining   Contact information For increasingly information, contact CADRO at CADRO@flra.gov or (202) 218-7933.   In This Section Office ofSpecimenIntake and Publication Office of Administrative Law Judges Collaboration and Alternative Dispute Resolution Office Office of Inspector General Office of the Solicitor Office of the Executive Director Additional Information Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) well-nigh the FLRA's ADR Programs Upcoming Events Basic Statutory Training Washington, DC December 13, 2018 Status: Accepting waitlist Basic Statutory Training New Orleans, Louisiana December 4, 2018 Status: Closed COMPLETE LIST Federal Labor RelationsValidity1400 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20424 202-218-7770 Footer Menu Col1 HomeWell-nighUs Components & Offices Footer Menu Col2SpecimenTypes Decisions Resources & Training Promo Menu Block eFilingAvailable Here Footer Secondary Menu Español FOIA Inspector General No FEAR Act & EEO OpenGov Privacy Policy Contact Us