ncerning the scope of arbitrable issues should be resolved in favor of arbitration." Since its founding in 1926, the American Arbitration Association, a private non-profit organization ("AAA"), has provided a forum for the arbitration of many thousands of commercial and other disputes. PDAAs became common features of collective bargaining agreements. The Supreme Court recognized the enforceability of PDAAs in labor contracts involving interstate commerce in United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co., 363 U.S. 574, 582-583 (1960).
During the post-World War II period various rationales have been advanced by parties wishing to avoid having to go to arbitration, but over a period of nearly fifty years, the courts, especially the Supreme Court, have gradually resolved almost all doubts in favor of the enforceability of PDAAs. Most states have enacted companion statutes to the Arbitration Act which are modeled on the Uniform Arbitration Act, 7 U.L.A. 5 (1985), but a small number still do not recognize the enforceabilit
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