2021 Colorado Code
Title 8 - Labor and Industry
Article 1 - Division of Labor - Industrial Claim Appeals Office
§ 8-1-123. Arbitration

The director shall do all in his power to promote the voluntary arbitration, mediation, and conciliation of disputes arising under an existing written agreement between employers and employees and to avoid the necessity of resorting to strikes, lockouts, boycotts, blacklists, discriminations, and legal proceedings in matters of employment. Arbitration undertaken pursuant to this section shall employ the procedures provided in part 2 of article 22 of title 13, C.R.S.

History. Source: L. 15: P. 577, § 27. C.L. § 4351. CSA: C. 97, § 29. CRS 53: § 80-1-27. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-27. L. 69: P. 582, § 41. L. 75: Entire section R&RE, p. 578, § 2, effective July 14. History. Source: L. 15: P. 577, § 27. C.L. § 4351. CSA: C. 97, § 29. CRS 53: § 80-1-27. C.R.S. 1963: § 80-1-27. L. 69: P. 582, § 41. L. 75: Entire section R&RE, p. 578, § 2, effective July 14.

For the illegality of blacklists and boycotts, see §§ 8-2-110 and 8-2-112 ; for the nonapplicability of this section to the “Labor Peace Act”, see § 8-3-123 .

Annotator's note. The case included in the annotations to this section which refers to the industrial commission was decided prior to the 1969 amendment to this section vesting in the director of the division of labor powers and duties previously exercised by the industrial commission.

This section contains broad investiture of power in the industrial commission to promote voluntary arbitration and conciliation of disputes to avoid the necessity of resorting to strikes and lockouts. Indus. Comm'n v. People ex rel. Metz, 86 Colo. 377 , 281 P. 742 (1929).

Undoubtedly the chief purpose of the exercise of the director's jurisdiction under the Industrial Relations Act is to avoid the necessity of resorting to strikes, lockouts, boycotts, blacklists, discriminations, and legal proceedings in matters of employment. Martin v. Montezuma-Cortez Sch. Dist. RE-1, 841 P.2d 237 (Colo. 1992).

Disputes over written contracts, or the lack thereof, between school districts as employers and teachers as employees may lead to legal proceedings which the director may seek to avoid by voluntary arbitration and mediation or conciliation. Martin v. Montezuma-Cortez Sch. Dist. RE-1, 841 P.2d 237 (Colo. 1992).