I JUST FIND OUT THAT THE Arbitration is defined by AT&T, not unlike court It uses a PRO AT&T arbitrator instead of a judge or jury known as an "award." This award is generally final and binding on the parties in the case, this is why CWA gets screwed oner and over, and by that I meant tbeir members
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Here's what I know.CWA allowed ATT to take away our team awards without notifying the workers that this would happen. Then the union pukes recommended that we vote yes on that years contract. I can never trust the union again after that malfeasance.Our union has been going downhill since 1998 at an increasing rate.You guys have sold your souls for pizza,donuts and paid days off.Adios losers !
I think the OP is uneducated or misinformed. There are two areas of arbitration at AT&T, one between customer and company, and one between represented employee and company.
I'm wondering whether the two are being confused.
By definition, AT&T doesn't define arbitration for bargained for employees, because that term applies to employees through bargaining, which necessarily requires two parties, CWA and company.
Reading an AT&T contract, they select a single arbitrator mutually selected by company and CWA from a list of 50. There are provisions to add and subtract from that list.
And there is also provisions to escalate to the American Arbitration Association to pick an arbitrator if there isn't mutual agreement on the arbitrator by CWA and company.
The arbitration process between employee and company is a different can of worms than the arbitration agreement incorporated as part of a customer agreement. It doesn't appear to me that the OP has read any labor agreement at AT&T.
Then what happened in the late 90s when they wanted to contract out all of Buried Wire Ops and the ARBITRATOR rules that AT&T must keep internal employees to do that work. It’s protected work.
Arbitrators who want repeat work with AT&T will favor them, they only see you the one time which makes you not important. This is why companies push for mandatory arbitration in employment related cases.
I do know this is the case if you go to arbitration as an individual in non-union cases.
I think arbitrators as a group, them being lawyers usually, just feel like they have more in common with the corporate stooges than they do with the union members.
Who are you ti call someone uneducated??? You are ether management or a scab!!!!!! Unhelpful and lier!!!!!!
You are uneducated and wrong. Simply stated.