First Name: Initial: Last Name: Suffix: Arbitrator Since: Martin Scheinman

Arbitration/Mediation Experience

Full time ad hoc and contract arbitrator in private and public sector disputes since 1978. Arbitrated over 10,000 disputes throughout the United States. Issues included: discipline and discharge, seniority, job classifications, incentive rates, promotions, overtime, subcontracting, welfare and pension funds, insurance and disability plans, fringe benefits, and jurisdictional disputes. Interest Arbitrator in over two hundred (200) disputes. Arbitrated and mediated over 150 disputes involving individual employment contracts, commercial transactions and ERISA claims, including serving as Independent Trustee. These included basic contract and employment discharge matters, claims for disputed compensation and severance, and issues involving restrictive covenants and breaches of fiduciary duties, withdrawal liability, Trustee Deadlocks, eligibility disputes, resolution of pending pension and welfare litigation, issues involving the right of Funds to litigate against service providers as well as disputes involving the seating of Trustees. Arbitrated and mediated over 125 private claims and class actions of alleged discrimination asserting racial, ethnic, sexual preference or physical and mental disability. These included large complex claims of millions of dollars involving hundreds of plaintiffs. Also, arbitrated over 100 disputes under collective bargaining agreements wherein unions claimed discipline imposed was a pretext for discriminatory action by employer. Permanent arbitrator for alleged discrimination by convention centers and by unions. Arbitrated and mediated over 50 claims involving disputes between accounting partners, law partners and other professionals. These included issues of valuations. Arbitrated and mediated over 25 commercial disputes. Mediated over 2,000 Labor-Management private and public sector disputes. Mediated over 5,000 grievances between County of Nassau and CSEA, County of Nassau and SHOA, State of Connecticut and 1199, New York City Department of Education and UFT, Metropolitan Transit Authority and ATU, Nursing Home Industry and 1199/SEIU and served as Independent Election Monitor overseeing contract ratifications and officer elections.

Panels/Permanent Arbitrator

PERMANENT PANEL ARBITRATOR A&P and UFCW, Local 342 Bricklayer Pension and Welfare Funds and Employers C.A.G.E. and Laborers Cooperative Home Care Associates and 1199/SEIU County of Nassau and PBA, CSEA, DAI, SHOA, SOA and AFA County of Suffolk and PBA, SOA, AME CSX Railroad and TCU C.W. Post and AFT Daily News and Paper Handlers/Union DHL and Local 851, IBT Employer and Union Trustees of Local 805 Pension and Welfare Funds Employer and Union Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Fund Entergy and Utility Workers Union, Local 1-2 Hunts Market Employer Group and Local 202, IBT Internal Revenue Service and AFGE Lockheed Martin Systems and IUE Long Island Railroad and UTU, TCU New England Welfare and Pension Funds (1199) and Employers New York City Department of Education and DC 37 New York City Department of Education and UFT New York City Transit Authority and Amalgamated Transit Union Local 726 New York Power Authority and IBEW New York Produce Trade Association and Local 202, IBT New York Times and Newspaper Guild New York Times and New York Printing Pressman’s Union, Local 2 New York, Inc. and Luggage & Brush Workers’ Union Local 60, ILGPN & SWU, AFL-CIO Pearl Paint Co., Inc. and Local 169, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, AFL-CIO, CLC Progressive Home Health Services and 1199/SEIU State of New York and State Unions Staten Island Rapid Transit Operating Authority and TCU and UTU Suffolk Water Authority and UWUA Verizon and IBEW and CWA Waldbaum’s and UFCW Local 342 Waterbury Hospital and New England Health Care Employees’ Union District 1199 Named in over two hundred and fifty (250) other agreements INDUSTRIES ARBITRATED AND MEDIATED Broadcasting, Brewery, Manufacturing, Health Care, Newspapers and Publishing, Aerospace and Airlines, Telephone, Power, Trucking, Utilities, Rail, Entertainment/Arts, Food, Restaurants, Machinery, Retail, Textiles, Printing, Packaging and Storage, Maritime, Nuclear Energy, Education and other Government Services

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Work History

Education

Cornell University/NYS School of Industrial and Labor Relations (BS-1975 & MS-1976) New York University School of Law (JD-1979

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