Alternative Selection Process. If the parties agree on an arbitrator outside of the American Arbitration Association process, the hearing and the award shall be governed in accordance with AAA rules.
Alternative Selection Process. When arbitration is invoked under the provisions of this Agreement, the arbitrator will be selected from a list of arbitrators mutually agreed upon by the parties. Arbitrators will be selected on a rotating basis from a list supplied by the American Arbitration Association. The responsibility to contact the arbitrator and advise of appointment will rotate between the Association and the Employer. Any arbitrator on the list may be removed from the list unilaterally by either party during the life of the Agreement upon the giving of written notice by the party removing the arbitrator to the other party and to the arbitrator. Upon receipt of written notice, no further cases will be assigned to that arbitrator, but the arbitrator will hear and decide any cases already assigned to him/her. Within ten (10) days after receipt of such notice, the parties shall meet and mutually agree upon another arbitrator to replace the arbitrator removed. The newly-selected arbitrator will be placed on the list of the numbered position of the arbitrator he/she replaced, and will take the cases on a rotational basis in the same manner as the arbitrator he/she replaces would have received them. An arbitrator may remove himself/herself from the list at any time.
