Section 40.01. Policy.

  To promote labor peace, the commission maintains a roster of individuals, not employed by the commission, who are available to serve as fact finders, grievance arbitrators, and interest arbitrators in statutory and contractual dispute resolution processes concerning private, municipal, state and UW System faculty and academic staff sector labor disputes arising in Wisconsin. The following criteria and procedures for admission and removal of roster members and for providing panels of roster members to disputants have been developed to insure the quality and professionalism of the services provided by roster members when serving as neutrals in labor disputes under ch. 111 , Stats.