The Southwest Rockies Region has existed in its basic structure of labor-management arbitrators admitted into the National Academy of Arbitrators since the late 1940s, and has been hosting an annual educational labor-management relations conference since 1977.  

Over the ensuing decades, the Region has grown to include NAA labor and employment arbitrators and mediators located in Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Some of our members have two professional locations, from Georgia to Missouri through California. The Region’s members serve to resolve disputes throughout the entire United States and its territories. The parties who select us as arbitrators come from federal or public sector entities, postal service, railroad, airlines, and private sector in which labor organizations represent the employees as their exclusive bargaining agent.

NAA arbitrators and mediators must adhere to the Code of Professional Responsibility for Labor Arbitrators (“Code”). The parties select us to resolve disputes pursuant to processes the parties have mutually agreed through joint negotiations. Arbitrators often refer to themselves as “creature of the contract,” meaning their occupation focuses on “the relationship between employer and union as expressed in their contract,” i.e., their collective bargaining agreement.