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<TT>Let's review where the Mediation/Arbitration system currently stands </TT>
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<TT>in practice:</TT>
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<TT>*The genuine custom for mediation is somewhere between zero and zip.</TT>
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<TT>*Mediation is requested as a method of trolling. So far only</TT>
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<TT>once successfully.</TT>
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<TT>*Mediation is requested and once it starts, one or both of the</TT>
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<TT>disputants will insist on behaving as if it were arbitration.</TT>
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<TT>(This has happened more than once, but which cases, I will not</TT>
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<TT>*Once the Arbitration Committee set itself up, it immediately dropped</TT>
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<TT>even the pretense at arbitration and constituted itself as a panel of</TT>
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<TT>grievance hearings with independent power of adjudication.</TT>
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<TT>Where do we go from here?</TT>
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<TT>Well, the first thing to acknowledge is that this how it was always </TT>
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<TT>going to go, no matter what we might have wished. Reality is a harsh</TT>
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<TT>mistress.</TT>
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<TT>The only logical thing to do is to rename the Arbitration Committee </TT>
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<TT>into something more close to what their actual role is, and rename</TT>
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<TT>the Mediation Committee into the Arbitration Committee, and give it</TT>
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<TT>live ammunition. What do I mean with live ammunition? I honestly</TT>
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<TT>don't know! Anything the current "socalled" Arbitration Committee can</TT>
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<TT>bear to part with...</TT>
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<TT>J-V Heiskanen (Formerly Cimon Avaro on a pogostick - RIP) </TT>
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