Taylor Lincoln's blog
Taylor Lincoln's blog
FAN asks Congress to reject bill that would deprive guest workers of legal rights
The Fair Arbitration Now coalition - a group of civil rights, consumer, employment, labor and health organizations - today sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee opposing H.R. 2847, which would deprive agricultural guest workers of their access to legal remedies. Section 6 permits employers to force agricultural workers into mandatory binding arbitration to settle disputes.
Colbert on Forced Arbitration
Stephen Colbert has a hilarious segment on binding mandatory arbitration clauses in credit card agreements. The part on arbitration starts a little past two minutes in, but the whole piece is worth watching.
Arb Study Reveals System's Arbitrariness
Opponents of the Arbitration Fairness Act strained to see a glass half full in a new study on consumer arbitrations administered by the American Arbitration Association, but they didn’t realize that the tonic contained a poison pill.
Whistleblower Trapped in Arbitration
Cross-posted from The Watchdog Blog
An opinion issued earlier this month by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals shows how willing the courts can be to uphold binding mandatory arbitration clauses even if the courts find elements of them unfair.