Two oil giants Exxon Mobil and ConocoPhillips are mired in arbitration over government changes to their contracts for their operations in the Orinoco belt.
He is the leader of the people, and in return for his services -- mediation, arbitration, attracting government services to the tribal area -- he is respected and obeyed.
Facebook believes highly-nuanced content moderation can resolve this tension, but it's an unfathomably complex logistical problem that has no obvious solution, that fundamentally threatens Facebook's business, and that has largely shifted the role of free speech arbitration from governments to a private platform.
He was key in establishing a 40-hour work week, collective bargaining and "last best offer" binding arbitration for Connecticut government employees.
A government arbitration court brokered a compromise to end a labor action by pilots at Aer Lingus, Ireland's state-owned airline, that had grounded planes for five days.
The fledgling Internet radio industry was handed a setback yesterday as a government arbitration panel said online radio stations should pay recording companies nearly 10 times what the Webcasters had proposed for the songs they play.
In addition to endorsing the more expeditious "card check" method of setting up unions, which is a long-time demand of the labor movement, the report called for automatic government arbitration in instances when employers refuse to bargain collectively with newly formed unions, as well as the mandatory establishment of works councils, before which workers' grievances could be heard.
The firm won in international arbitration, but the government seized its production facilities, denouncing the World Bank's International Settlement of Investment Disputes as a "colonialist".
Seeking to forestall a judgment running to the tens of billions of dollars in its so-called "Rainforest Chernobyl" litigation, Chevron on September 23rd filed a notice of arbitration against the Government of Ecuador under the U.S.-Ecuador BITateral Investment Treaty, or "BIT".
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that Chevron can take the case to international arbitration, "claiming the government of Ecuador and the state-owned Petroecuador oil company is responsible for cleaning up the mess, not Chevron".
