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Tennessee Center For Labor-Management Relations represents a consortium
of the Tennessee Department of Labor, the University of Tennessee
system, and the Tennessee Board of Regents universities. Center
staff conduct on-site courses in over twenty subjects, including
steward training, leadership, supervisor training, labor-management
cooperation, stress management, negotiation, health and safety,
worker participation, mediation, alternate dispute resolution, and
diversity.
TNCLMR organizes
and hosts the Tennessee Labor-Management Relations annual conference,
topical conferences and institutes, and facilitates labor-management
committees on both workplace and industry wide levels.
Staff
| Mark C. Travis
Director
Mark became interim director of the Center on October 1, 2009. Before becoming a full-time neutral, Mark’s professional background involved work as a labor relations attorney for over 20 years. He received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Tennessee and his law degree from the University of Louisville. Mark also holds a certificate in Labor Relations Studies from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a Master of Laws in Dispute Resolution from the prestigious Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law, where he has also teaches Employment Dispute Resolution.
Mark currently serves on the neutral panels of the American Arbitration Association, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the International Mediation Institute, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He has served as Secretary of the Tennessee Employment Relations Research Association, chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Tennessee Bar Association, is a founding member of the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators, and is listed as a Distinguished Neutral with the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution. For the past ten years, Mark has also served as an adjunct professor of Employment and Labor Relations Law at Tennessee Technological University.
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Catherine
Sutton
Assistant Director
Catherine joined the Tennessee Center for Labor-Management
Relations in 1998 as an Assistant to the Director. Currently Catherine serves as the Assistant Director.
Catherine facilitates on-site services to
joint labor-management committees across Tennessee. She serves on the Tennessee Labor-Management Foundation Committee. Her ADR
training includes FMCS Mediation Skills for the Workplace,
Rule 31- 40 hour Civil Mediation Training approved by the
Tennessee Supreme Court Commission on ADR, Basic 40 hour Workplace
Mediation Training and Grievance Mediation Training conducted
by Mediation Research & Education Project, Inc.. as well as the Program on Negotiation's "After the Handshake" at Harvard Law School. A member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, National and Middle Tennessee Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), she is certified as a Labor Relations Professional by Michigan State University. Catherine makes her home in Murfreesboro. Her hobbies include her amazing grandchildren, Irish twins Haila Marie Sutton born 2-19-08 and James Brandon Sutton born 2-15-09.
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Mission
The Mission
of the Tennessee Center For Labor-Management Relations at Middle
Tennessee State University, a consortium of the Tennessee Department
of Labor and Workforce Development, Middle Tennessee State University
and the Tennessee Board of Regents is to develop an association
between labor-management and higher education for the development
and delivery of relevant, comprehensive, and educational services
to workers throughout the State of Tennessee.
The Center's
goal is to identify and fulfill the educational needs of workers
to develop and maintain positive interpersonal relationships which
allow them to compete and thrive in a global economy.
Vision
The Tennessee
Center for Labor-Management Relations is a major partner in the
competitiveness process. We act to ensure the quality of the workforce
into the 21st Century.
We serve as
a unique, impartial catalyst in the Labor-Management process and
serve as the premier center for worker education in the United States.
We are a highly-energized,
responsive organization comprised of competent caring individuals
dedicated to making a positive difference.
We excel in
providing innovative, timely, cost-effective education for workers
in the global workforce.
We commit to
the success of workers by tailoring our services to meet their needs.
We work to ensure
the quality and personal satisfaction of the workers we educate.
Guiding
Principles
Our whole existence
depends on our worker trust and our total competence. We must remain
independent and impartial in the labor-management process.
We must constantly
evaluate and improve how we do business by optimizing resources,
being creative, promoting teamwork, and working in partnerships
with those we serve.
We must
respect each other and have the moral courage to be open and honest.
We must conduct ourselves with pride and hold ourselves personally
accountable in the fulfillment of our mission. We must do it right,
on time, the first time, without equivocation or excuse.
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