Rick Claypool's blog
Rick Claypool's blog
More than 125,500 tell Chamber of Commerce: Stop protecting rapists!
That’s right, more than 125,500 signed our petition to demand an end to the US Chamber of Commerce’s lobbying against Senator Franken’s (D-Minn) amendment to bar defense contractors like Halliburton/KBR from forcing employees with sexual assault and discrimination claims into arbitration.
Fighting bad deals in the fine print
Like many folks, I often feel a twinge of guilt for not reading all the fine print when signing contracts for credit cards and other services. I feel like there’s something there I should know (and worry) about, and if I could figure out exactly what it is, then I might be able to fight back if it turned out I signed a bad deal. But, of course, I start to read, my eyes glaze over, and … well, I never figure out what that worrisome item is.