Joint Labor-Management Committee for Municipal Police and Fire

Professor John T. Dunlop

Chairman Joint Labor-Management Committee

	A man of admired strength and integrity, Professor Dunlop is heralded as one of the great labor economists of all time. Lamont University Professor Emeritus of Harvard University, economics professor, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Chairman of the Harvard Economics Department; Chairman of Construction Industry Stabilization Committee; Member National Commission on Productivity; Former Secretary of Labor, Director of the Cost of Living Council; Founder and Chairman of the Massachusetts Joint Labor-Management Committee for Municipal Police and Fire since 1977.
In 1996 the US Department of Labor cited the JLMC as a model of positive, non-confrontational decision making. By design the tripartite committee structure includes equal representation from management and labor as well as a neutral party and employs methods such as peer mediation to jointly resolve contract disputes. The JLMC serves as a prototype model for dispute resolution agencies throughout the world. Professor Dunlop brought a philosophy stressing a strong collective bargaining system, mutual problem-solving, informal mediation; led in improving cooperation between all of the federal labor agencies and the private sector. Used the President's Labor-Management Advisory Committee for policy development. He was closely involved in major cold war problems the U.S. had in the International Labor Organization. We grieve the loss of a colleague and a friend, a man, a soldier who brought those on of opposite sides of a divide to a common place.