To the extent possible, the Mediation Service shall: 

(1) promote voluntary mediation or arbitration of disputes between employers and employees; and 

(2) discourage resort to a legal proceeding or to a blacklist, boycott, discrimination, or lockout in or arising out of a dispute between employers and employees. 

[An. Code 1957, art. 89, § 11; 1991, ch. 8, § 2.]