Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York December 12, 2002 (In re the Arbitration between Amalgamated Transit Union & Capital District Transit System)

—Mercare, J.P.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (McNamara, J.), entered October 2, 2001 in Albany County, which granted petitioners’ application pursuant to CPLR 7503 to compel arbitration between the parties.

While employed as a first class mechanic in the maintenance department of respondents’ bus garage in the City of Troy, Rensselaer County, petitioner Daniel M.