by Atty. Steve Churchill* As The New York Times recently reported in a three-part series, employers increasingly are relying on mandatory arbitration agreements to force their workers to resolve employment disputes in arbitration instead of court (where a worker usually has the right to a jury trial). While arbitration can result in faster outcomes, it has well-known problems: it is prone to systemic biases in favor of employers, shields cases from the public eye, and provides only limited …