BoingBoing: Google Walkout meets #MeToo in a new anti-arbitration campaign

Cory Doctorow writes for BoingBoing:

When outraged googlers walked off the job last year to protest the company’s practice of secretly paying off serial sexual assaulters and harassers, while denying employees the right to sue over harassment through arbitration clauses in their contracts, Google CEO Sundar Pichai promised revise Google employment contracts to remove mandatory arbitration for individual sexual harassment claims.

Binding arbitration is parallel justice system run by and for big corporations, who use mandatory arbitration clauses to deny the right to sue to employees, contractors, partners and parts of their supply chain.

Read more at BoingBoing.

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