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Ellen Gallin Procida is currently the Associate Director of Labor – Management Programs for Cornell University’s Scheinman Institute, ILR School. She teaches Contract Interpretation, Agreement Writing, Effective Discipline, Collective Bargaining, Arbitration Advocacy, Cross Examination and other classes.

Prior to taking on this role, Ms. Gallin Procida taught in the New York City public school system for 20 years. During that time she also worked after school for the UFT Grievance and Arbitration Department. Ellen Gallin Procida became a full time member of the UFT Grievance and Arbitration Department staff and then its Director for 8 years before retiring as of January 1, 2019. As the Director of the UFT’s Grievance Department – and the first woman to hold this important post – Ellen advocated or supervised more than 1,000 arbitrations. Ellen was the lead advocate on numerous arbitrations that had significant impact on the operation of the New York City Public School System. As part of her work in the Grievance and Arbitration Department, Ellen has been training UFT members to be arbitration advocates for more than 20 years. She helped negotiate and implement various expedited arbitration procedures and dispute resolution processes where labor management teams at various levels attempt to resolve issues as the steps prior to arbitration.

Amongst her responsibilities as Assistant to UFT President Michael Mulgrew, Ellen was a key member of the UFT Collective Bargaining team and has assisted in the planning, preparation and implementation of the AFT/Cornell Scheinman Institute Collective Bargaining Partnership since its inception.

Harry C. Katz is the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at the School of Industrial & Labor Relations, Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. After teaching at MIT he came to the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1985.

Sally Klingel is the director of labor-management relations programming for the Scheinman Institute, where she teaches, trains and provides organizational change consulting services to labor and management groups nation-wide. She specializes in the design and implementation of conflict and negotiation systems, labor-management partnerships, work redesign, strategic planning and change processes, and leadership development. Her work with Cornell over the past fifteen years has included training, consulting, and action research with organizations in a variety of industries, local, state and federal government agencies, union internationals and locals, public schools and universities, and worker owned companies.

Sally holds a M.S. in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and a B.A. from the University of Michigan. She has authored articles, monographs and book chapters on innovations in labor-management relations. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, writing a dissertation on labor-management strategies for change in municipal work organizations.

Dan McCray is a lecturer at Cornell University. He is an expert in workplace negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. As Practice Leader and Director of the Labor Relations Programs, Dan is responsible for developing and teaching professional education programs in negotiations, conflict resolution, collective bargaining for professionals working for unions and employers in the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
Dan has taught and facilitated dozens of management and union teams, with a particular emphasis on developing and executing an effective negotiating strategy and the skills of an effective negotiator.

Arthur Wheaton is director of Western NY Labor and Environmental Programs for the Worker Institute at Cornell. His expertise includes industry education and workplace training, high performance work systems, negotiations and conflict resolution, as well as auto and aerospace industrial relations.

Prior to joining the ILR faculty in 1999, Art was with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was project manager for the Labor Aerospace Research Agenda.
Previously, Art was a labor education specialist at Michigan State University. Art has served as executive board member and steward for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO in Michigan.

Author of numerous publications, Art earned a B.A. in multidisciplinary social science with a concentration in political science, history and economics at Michigan State University. He has an M.L.I.R. from the Michigan State School of Labor and Industrial Relations.