A professional who mediates and conciliates disputes over negotiations of labor agreements or other labor relations disputes. Responsibilities include:

• Promotes use of fact-finding and advisory services to prevent labor disputes and to maintain sound labor relationships.
• Promotes use of mediation and conciliation services to resolve labor disputes.
• Advises and counsels parties to solve labor problems.
• Investigates and mediates labor disputes upon request of any bona fide party, using knowledge of labor law, industry practices, and social policies involved in labor relations.
• Urges expeditious settlement of negotiations to prevent employee wage loss, to minimize business interruptions, and to achieve labor-management peace.
• Interrogates parties and clarifies problems to focus discussion on crucial points of disagreement.
• Assists parties to compromise and settle deadlocked negotiations.
• Prepares reports of decisions reached or outcome of negotiations.
• May assist in arranging arbitration.
• May conduct representation elections according to written consent agreement of concerned parties.
• May oversee balloting procedures to assist in ratification of labor agreements.