Joel Barras, an attorney at Reed Smith LLP represents a variety of regional and national employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitration, and employment-related litigation.

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Cuomo recently met with some local officials to build support for his proposal to change the binding arbitration law that guides labor disputes.

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Another part to this initiative is mandatory arbitration: If management does not agree to a labor contract with a newly unionized unit after 120 days, an outside arbitrator can dictate the terms of the contract.

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Arbitration tribunals at the ICSID have historically been closed, with labor and environmental activists often criticizing this lack of transparency.

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But to get to binding arbitration, the parties need to reach impasse, a term that in labor law means deadlock, with no hope of resolution.

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Nadler is a partner at Reed Smith LLP who represents employers at all stages of both traditional labor relations and employment law matters, including cases in federal and state court, arbitration, and mediation, as well as matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the National Labor Relations Board, and various other federal and state agencies.

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There is no unified labor code in place and in the past, disputes between workers and factory owners have been settled with government arbitration.

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