Originally Posted by dontsurf

you're losing me here. if the arbitrator doesn't rule in our favor, as in he doesn't rule that the company has violated the contract, as in he basically says, "this is fine, nothing to see here, nothing can be done", then the company can continue with the nea and in fact, can go sign more agreements that violate these same parts of the contract, because they have now officially gotten away with it. i'm not sure how that's no big deal? it seems like a big deal to me. would our scope still be "intact" at that point? it doesn't seem like it to me. it seems like it would have been punched through and torn apart, and we tried to do something about it, but failed, and the company can continue doing as they please.

however, like others have said on here (and what convinced me to vote no), is that if that does happen, at least it's the arbitrator doing it to us, and not us doing it to ourselves. we're not "giving up scope". scope is being taken away from us. that does mean something. we can say we fought and lost, but at least we stood our ground.