Forced Arbitration

On Sunday, June 12, a major cryptocurrency platform that accepts deposits from individuals and uses their deposits to make crypto loans, promising high yields to depositors, announced that it would be “pausing” all withdrawals and transfers for users. Some panicked users have begun calling for class actions against the platform…

By Tanuja Gupta, founder of Googlers for Ending Forced Arbitration and an original organizer of the Google Walkout. As I watched President Biden sign the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act into law last month, my hands clapped and my heart sank at the same time…

By Karen Ocamb, Director of Media Relations “Forced arbitration really is the crux of why all forms of discrimination are so prevalent in this country — systemic racism and discrimination,” former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores declared at a virtual press conference on March 14 in which he detailed…

By Karen Ocamb — It was the cusp of evening, March 3, Day 7 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Biden administration had asked Congress for $10 billion in emergency humanitarian and defense aid and imposed new sanctions on Russian oligarchs and elites that day, “ratcheting up the economic pressure on allies of President…

Bipartisan, Bicameral Legislation Now Heads to the House Floor — Washington, D.C. —On Wednesday, November 17, the House Judiciary Committee advanced H.R. 4445, the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, by a bipartisan vote of 27–14. The legislation, introduced by Congresswoman Cheri Bustos (D-IL), empowers sexual assault and harassment survivors by restoring their access…

By Paul Bland and Karen Ocamb Glenda Perez was calm, intent on conveying every syllable of her story to the November 4 House Education and Labor subcommittee hearing “Closing the Courthouse Doors: The Injustice of Forced Arbitration Agreements.” A survivor of the secretive, commonly incomprehensible clause in employee contracts known…

For-profit debt settlement companies often make big promises to consumers that they can’t keep. They target consumers in financial trouble with promises to negotiate with their creditors to reduce or even erase debts, encouraging consumers to stop paying their creditors and start paying the debt settlement company instead. …