Quotes about arbitrators (13 Quotes)



    The arbitrator ruled 100 percent in our favor. THF agreed in the contract that we'd abide by the arbitrator's ruling. We also said in the contract that the loser would pay the winner all the legal fees and all the costs of the arbitration. We really don't see any reason why THF wouldn't pay us.

    Put yourself in the arbitrator's position. Odds that the plaintiff employee is ever going to need your services again are almost zero. But if you're a large, multistate or multinational corporation, you figure, 'If I give a good ruling on this case, they're going to keep shooting me these cases and I can make a lot of money.' That's a built-in bias in the arbitration procedure.

    It also limits their right to discovery, or information-gathering. Probably the biggest problem is that most of them require the cost of the arbitrator be split by the parties. A lot of these arbitrators charge a lot of money. It could be thousands and thousands of dollars. That puts an employee sometimes in a position where they can't afford to arbitrate their claims.

    We are deeply disappointed in the arbitrator's ruling on New York City Transit's expansion of one-person train operation to the L line on nights and weekends. Although the union argued that the program was unsafe, the arbitrator based the decision on an overly technical reading of a 1994 contract, not safety. We will be reviewing our options over the next few days.


    We now need to bring an end to this dispute. For too many years it has poisoned relations between the developing countries that sell bananas to Europe. The EU is faithfully following the roadmap agreed at Doha in 2001. We are confident that the WTO arbitrators will recognize this.

    We believe Arthur Andersen is not happy with the way the hearings have progressed and is using the media to air their side of the story rather than waiting for the arbitrator's objective ruling.


    As important as he is to the club on the field, to the organization, to this community, we certainly didn't want to get into an acrimonious setting where effectively we're paying lawyers to tell independent arbitrators how little we think of Mark. We wanted to avoid that. He shared that sentiment with us. It's a mutually beneficial deal.

    We are confident that our revised proposal is fully in conformity with the ruling of the WTO arbitrators, ... It was always our intention that the level of protection would not change under our new import regime.






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