Arbitration

Sam Stein

Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment Survives

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics


An amendment that would prevent the government from working with contractors who deny victims of sexual assault the right to bring their case in court...

Ryan Grim

Defense Department Opposed Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


When thirty Republicans lined up against an amendment that would have required defense contractors to allow their employees access to U.S. courts in c...

Why Does Chamber of Commerce Favor Arbitration for Workplace Rape Victims, But Oppose It for Union Workers?

Art Levine | Posted 07.17.2009 | Business


Art Levine

What's especially galling is how fervently businesses embrace arbitration when it allows them to avoid being held accountable for negligence towards employees or the defrauding of consumers.

Sam Stein

Labor Takes New EFCA Tact: Targets Business On Arbitration

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


Scroll down to see the ad In what is a tactical shift in the debate over the Employee Free Choice Act, the labor community is going after business, c...

Arthur Delaney

Consumer Protection Measure Introduced In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics


Sen Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) introduced a bill Wednesday that would prevent companies from forcing consumers and employees into arbitration agreements....

MBNA Claims to Have Talked to My Dead Mother about Credit Card

Don McNay | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business


Don McNay

My mother allegedly died in 2006. I say allegedly because a collector representing MBNA said he talked to her on June 21st.

Producers Plan To File For Arbitration Against Tearful Jeremy Piven

AP | MICHAEL KUCHWARA | Posted 03.30.2009 | Entertainment


NEW YORK — Jeremy Piven is not off the hook yet. The producers of "Speed-the-Plow" said Friday they will file for arbitration to settle their d...

If Past Is Prologue, Mary Schapiro's Future Should Not Include the SEC

Dan Solin | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business


Dan Solin

Mary Schapiro's advocacy for FINRA's flawed mandatory arbitration process - and her antipathy for investors' rights -- disqualifies her from confirmation as head of the SEC.

Right-Wing Supreme Court Draws Ire Of Senate Judiciary Committee

Cristóbal Joshua Alex | Posted 07.31.2008 | Home


Cristóbal Joshua Alex

The Supreme Court has shifted dangerously to the right and is now the most pro-business Court since the monopoly greasing "Lochner-era" Court of the late 19th century.

Another Corporate Gimmick -- Arbitration

Dave Johnson | Posted 06.22.2008 | Business


Dave Johnson

More and more consumer-oriented contracts have clauses specifying that disputes must go to arbitration rather than our civil justice system. But 98.8% of arbitrations end in favor of the corporations.