"They're looking for a cheap way to win strength," said Leo Troy, a labor expert at Rutgers University.
Other members will include a labor expert and the head of a major private relief organization, Oxfam.
"Workers' rights are not protected much when this happens," said Anita Chan, a labor expert at Australian National University.
The system can be especially helpful to the umpires, the labor expert said, because the findings become public.
"That's not a major slap in the face to Hillary," said Joseph McCartin, a labor expert at Georgetown University.
A. H. Raskin, the labor expert who was a reporter for The New York Times, called Mr. Tyler one of the true intellectuals of the trade union movement.
"There hasn't been the big increase in union membership that they had called for," said Peter Dreier, a labor expert at Occidental College.
During World War II he served in the War Shipping Administration and then as a labor expert in the State Department.
"We often talk about the third rail of negotiations — that's appropriate, particularly for BART," said Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California, Berkeley.
organized home care workers because it meant it was representing the working poor," said Nelson Lichtenstein, a labor expert at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Steve Babson, a labor expert at Wayne State University in Detroit, said the dispute did not have good results for the union.
