1.   Clandestine tape recordings have been star-witness ammunition in many other recent workplace disputes.

2.   He supported bills opposed by labor unions that let employers handle workplace disputes.

3.   Historically, many workplace disputes that go to court are won by employers, but some cases that favored workers have produced punitive damages in the millions of dollars.

4.   Judges have begun to complain of schedules clogged with workplace disputes.

5.   Licensed brokers give up their right to go to court on workplace disputes.

6.   Many workers favor arbitration as a means of settling workplace disputes, endorsing in effect the increasing use of arbitration by corporate America.

7.   Ten years ago, it was virtually unheard of for a company to make its employees agree to resolve all workplace disputes in nonjudicial forums.

8.   The securities industry has used the process to settle workplace disputes.

9.   The Supreme Court handed employers a major victory on Wednesday by ruling that companies can insist that workplace disputes go to arbitration rather than to court.

10.   Under that same theory, Con-Census can settle workplace disputes and political quagmires.