Dennis Campagna : Biography
Dennis J. Campagna, Esq., is Director of Labor-Management Programs in Cornell's Western Region. He develops labor-management programs on statutory mandates and their effect on the workplace. A practicing mediator and arbitrator with direct experience in numerous aspects of collective bargaining and alternative dispute resolution (ADR), he co-directs Western Region Alternative Dispute Resolution Studies.
Dennis provides arbitration, mediation and facilitation services as a neutral jointly selected by parties to a dispute. Approved arbitrator for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York to hear labor and employment related matters before the Court. Also listed with the American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, National Mediation Board and NYS Public Employment Relations Board labor and employment arbitrators, including the AAA Ed.Law 3020-a panel.
Panel Arbitrator for the U.S. Postal Service, Allegheny County/AFSCME, Erie County Water Authority/AFSCME, Erie County Sheriffs Deptment/PBA, Rochester City Schools/Rochester Teachers Association, Rush-Henrietta Central School District/Teachers Association and Bar Technologies/USWA. Contract Mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Public Employment Relations Board (as well as PERB’s fact finder listing) and Rural Metro Corporation. Trainer for EEOC mediators.
Before coming to Cornell in 1996, Dennis was a partner with the law firm Flaherty, Cohen, Grande, Randazzo & Doren (now Bond, Schoeneck & King), where he specialized in labor and employment law representing management mediation and facilitation services as a neutral jointly selected by parties to a dispute. Previously, he served ten years as a field representative for New York State United Teachers, AFT, AFL-CIO. Dennis earned a B.A. at University of California-Los Angeles and an M.S. at Canisius College, both in mathematics, and a J.D. at SUNY at Buffalo School of Law. He has completed the Harvard University Negotiations for Lawyers program. Dennis is active with local, state and national bar associations and with the ADR program of the State of New York Unified Court System.
