Margo Newman

Arbitrator & Mediator

AFSCME Council 31

Margo was born and raised in New York City and attended the University of
Michigan, where she graduated in 1971 with a B.A. in History. She taught Junior High School social studies in New York City, and studied law at George
Washington University in Washington, D.C. where she received her J.D. in 1975.

She did a short stint with the U.S. Railway Association before joining the National Labor Relations Board in Chicago in 1976, where she worked as a trial specialist until 1981, when she went into private practice with the law firm of Asher, Gittler, Greenfield & D'Alba, representing unions and employees in all aspects of labor relations. There she remained until 1988, when she decided that having married a Canadian the prior year (after years of commuting), and being 7 months pregnant with their first of two sons, she ought to relocate her primary residence to Toronto.This she accomplished in March, 1989.

Since that time, Margo has been in the full-time practice of labor arbitration.
She began her U.S. practice in 1988, followed by her Canadian arbitration practice in 1991. Prior to the pandemic, she divided her time between her Chicago and Toronto offices. Now she works remotely, and has grudgingly (but happily) given up her frequent flier status. Margo was admitted to the National Academy of
Arbitrators in 2002, and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2014.