You’re only allowed to be right about one thing at a time. That’ll be six-and-a-quarter million dollars for your arrogance, and also how dare you?
Agreeing to an arbitration clause seems to have been critical mistake for this onion.
Arbitration is a scam in any other context besides b2b where parties have similar bargaining power.
I bet union can’t even appeal this pro capital decision either.
Arbitration is pretty much always a scam. Even in b2b settings, a lot of those contracts are not between parties of equal power.
Like, if a small business sets up a business account at a major office supply company, that’s a pretty common example of a b2b contract where the parties have very different power.
Who the hell sides with HCA instead of nurses when there are complaints about staffing shortages and PPE shortages? Ridiculous.
It’s a pretty sure bet the only reason that an Arbitrator was used was because it’s required by a contract, and required by the hospital. Extremely unlikely the Union would specifically request arbitration rather than a regular trial, they are notorious for siding with big businesses. Also I likely the Union paid for that Arbitrator.