For the 2006 LERA research volume, leading scholars were assembled in a roundtable for the purpose of eliciting their views on key contemporary industrial relations issues. The roundtable members were Adrienne E. Eaton, professor and director of labor extension in the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations; Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor of Management and director of the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the MIT Sloan School of Management; David B. Lipsky, the Anne Evans Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution and former dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University; Daniel J.B. Mitchell, the Ho-Su Wu Chair in Management in the UCLA Anderson School of Management and former director of the UCLA Institute of Industrial Relations; and Paula B. Voos, professor and chair of the Department of Labor Studies and Employment in the Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. The key issues were posed as questions, and the responses are summarized below.