Odds are good that wherever the words “labor” or “arbitration” are mentioned at meetings around the world, somebody from the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service will be there.

When there was a “dispute resolution workshop” in Turin, Italy, in February 2012, for example, FMCS deputy director Allison Beck was there, at a cost of $2,037.

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