Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA)Conflict Resolution Alliance (CRA)
Presented by Robert Lillis & Carol Catanzariti
Getting to resolution, a roll play demonstration and conversation.
About the Presenters:
Carol Catanzariti has extensive experience as a mediator for contract, grievance, and EEO cases in the federal, state, and private sectors. She has worked as a FMCS Commissioner in Hawaii as well as in Guam, Japan, and California. In addition, she is a trainer in alternative dispute resolution methods, such as Interest Based Bargaining, Modified Interest Bargaining, Interest Problem Solving with large and small groups. She mediated high profile cases such as a five-hospital strike involving the Hawaii Nurses Association, the Hawaii State Teacher’s Association and trained the Hawaiian Electric Company/IBEW in Interest Based Bargaining after a previous strike and intense adversarial negotiations. She has also mediated many cases with the federal sector and its unions at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Navy Exchange Hawaii, the Veterans Administration Pacific Region, and Tripler Army Medical Center. Carol received her BS in Nursing from Syracuse University and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii. She had the honor of clerking for the Chief Judge of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals (a division of the Hawaii Supreme Court), and was legislative analyst for Honolulu City Council Chair, and a Labor Relations Specialist for the Hawaii Nurses’ Association. She has been with FMCS since January,1999, and has lived in Hawaii for 38 years.
Mr. Robert D. Lillis has completed over eighty (80) mediations for the Department of the Navy and has also served as a mediator for both the EEOC as part of the LAMP program and as a mediator for the Mediation Center of the Pacific. He has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawai’i. Mr. Lillis is currently the vice president of The Labor Education Advisory Council UH West Oahu and has served on the board for more than 9 years. Mr. Lillis is the current President of the Machinists Union IAM & AW LL 1998 Honolulu, Hawai’i, and was first elected to this position in 2006. In January 2018 Mr. Lillis retired from the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Marine Machinery Shop. He is also a veteran of the US Navy and was a qualified Submarines and Nuclear Propulsion.
