Jerome T. Barrett Collection

Jerome T. Barrett was born in 1932 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his Bachelors degree from the College of St. Thomas (1959) and his Masters degree from the University of Minnesota (1963). His Doctorate of Education is from The George Washington University (1984). Barrett worked as a field examiner for the National Labor Relations Board from 1961 to 1963. Following that he worked for one year as a mediator at the Minnesota Office of Labor Conciliator. He served as a mediator for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in District of Columbia and Milwaukee from 1964 to 1969. He was assistant director of Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation at the National Center for Dispute Resolution, 1969 to 1970. Barrett returned to government service in 1970 as chief of the Division of Public Employee Relations at the U.S. Department of Labor. He rejoined the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service in 1973 as director of the Office of Technical Services. He taught labor relations at Northern Kentucky University from 1982 to 1985 and was an industrial relations specialist for the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor-Management Cooperative Programs until his retirement in 1990. He is the author of over 200 published articles and papers. He is co-author of Interest Based Bargaining: A User Guide (2005) and P.A.S.T. Is the Future: A Model for Interest-Based Collective Bargaining(1998) and author of A History of Alternative Dispute Resolution (2004). He is a member of numerous mediation and arbitration-related professional associations. He passed away on November 5, 2020.