First Name: Initial: Last Name: Suffix: Arbitrator Since: William L. Schecter Esq. 1994

Arbitration/Mediation Experience

Over one thousand arbitration awards in the private and public sectors.

Panels/Permanent Arbitrator

PANELS: American Arbitration Association Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service National Mediation Board New Jersey State Board of Mediation New York State Public Employment Relations Board New York City Office of Collective Bargaining CURRENT AND PREVIOUS PERMANENT ARBITRATION PANEL APPOINTMENTS: Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union / Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations, Inc. (multi-employer real estate industry association in NYC, Long Island, Westchester, Connecticut and New Jersey) Local 32BJ SEIU / Concourse Village, Inc. Local 32BJ SEIU / 50 West Street Local 30 International Union of Operating Engineers / Foxwoods Resort Casino Local 1430 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers / Ellington Owners Corp. Local 670 Stationary Engineers, Firemen, Maintenance and Building Service Union, RWDSU, UFCW / New York Partners Management, LLC Local 670 Stationary Engineers, Firemen, Maintenance and Building Service Union, RWDSU, UFCW / Calvary Baptist Church Senior Housing Development Fund Co., Inc. Local 100 Transport Workers Union of America / New York City Transit Civil Service Employees Association / New York State International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers / Airport Group International, Inc. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers / Signature Flight Support, Inc. Transport Workers Union of America / Continental Airlines, Inc. Westchester County Correction Officers Benevolent Association / Westchester County, New York Civil Service Employees Association / Nassau County, New York Association of Professional Flight Attendants / American Eagle Flagship Airlines, Inc. International Brotherhood of Teamsters / Chautauqua Airlines, Inc. OTHER APPINTMENTS: Appointed by U.S. Secretary of Labor and U.S. Secretary of Transportation as co-chairman of a joint Airline Industry Labor-Management Committee consisting of representatives of the major national airline unions and major national and regional airlines to study and make recommendations for improvements in the process for the settling of labor disputes.

Issues/Industries

Seniority (including promotion, layoff and recall, displacement); scope, staffing and jurisdictional disputes; arbitrability; discipline/discharge (job performance; attendance, theft, insubordination, fighting and violence, off-duty conduct, drugs/intoxication, sleeping, etc.); employment discrimination; social media use; out-of-title work; drug and alcohol testing; medical and pension benefits; leaves of absence; statutory law; interest arbitration; vacation and holiday entitlement; productivity standards; job security; disability determinations; pay issues including overtime, bonuses, differentials and severance; overtime distribution; interest arbitration; safety and health; subcontracting; sick leave; successorship; hiring

Work History

Alcatel-Lucent, Inc. - Law and Workforce Relations Vice President Trans World Airlines, Inc. - Vice President – Labor Relations

Education

Lafayette College, AB, Economics Fordham University School of Law, JD

Professional Affiliations

New York State Bar United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit United States Supreme Court New York State Bar Association - Labor and Employment Law Section - Dispute Resolution Section