No matter how bad the harm or the nature of the injury, the only way to seek recourse is to enter into binding arbitration by yourself in a system set up by the company you believe has done you wrong.
So they entered binding arbitration before a panel led by George Nicolau, an 82-year-old New York arbitrator with experience in seniority disputes.
If they cannot, the matter will be settled by a round of binding arbitration overseen by the state education commissioner, John B. King Jr., that will impose a system by June 1.
Buried in the fine print of most contracts for cellphones, health insurance and credit cards is a clause requiring that all disputes be decided by binding arbitration, rather than a court.
It would end binding arbitration, an option favored by the police and firefighters, who are not allowed to strike.
If your contract provides for resolving all contractual disputes by entering into binding arbitration, you have a right to invoke that privilege once you and your lawyer decide that the other party is refusing to negotiate a simple resolution to your contract dispute.
The judge did so not because he thought Brown's claims were unfounded but because when they were hired, Brown and his coworkers had signed documents agreeing to settle disputes with the company through binding arbitration, not by going to court.
The authority said it would petition for binding arbitration, an option that Mr. Toussaint has rejected in the past.
Re the April 8 letter by Pasquale J. Curcio, chairman of the Suffolk County Conservative Party ["Binding Arbitration Must Go in Suffolk"]: Mr. Curcio will be disappointed to learn that, rather than going anywhere, binding arbitration is becoming an increasingly popular method of resolving employment disputes.
One board member reiterated the authority's position yesterday, saying that the board would not consider the union's revote, that the contract terms were off the table, and that the matter could be resolved only by binding arbitration, which has been ordered by the state.
