§ 95-36.8.  Enforcement of arbitration agreement and award.

 (a) Written agreements to arbitrate labor disputes, including but not restricted to controversies relating to wages, hours and other conditions of employment, shall be valid, enforceable and irrevocable, except upon such grounds as exist in law or equity for the rescission or revocation of any contract, in either of the following cases:

(1) Where there is a provision in a collective bargaining agreement or any other contract, hereafter made or extended, for the settlement by arbitration of a controversy or controversies thereafter arising between the parties;

(2) Where there is an agreement to submit to arbitration a controversy or controversies already existing between the parties.

 (b) Any arbitration award, made pursuant to an agreement of the  parties described in subsection (a) of this section and in accordance  with this Article, shall be final and binding upon the parties to the  arbitration proceedings. (1945, c. 1045, s. 5; 1947, c. 379, ss. 1-3;  1951, c. 1103, s. 1.)