Hey Gretch…how about admitting the many times you trashed Franken while working at FuxSnooz were all bullshit?
Amazing how former right wing shills run to the Dems when a issue affects them personally…
Remember Megyn Kelly on maternity leave??
I am glad Ms. Calrson is doing this, but the irony of this vapid, right-wing talking head spewing republican bs on fox for years turning to the democrats for justice is not lost
I would love to see a montage of clips where Gretchen criticized unions or repeated the Fox bromides “Big union bosses” or “union thugs”. It’s always amusing to see folks bash labor; and yes they are far from perfect yet are ok with having the counterweight to overreaching management.
Unshackled by Fox News
This issue has existed for decades before Gretchen Carlson was affected by it. Gretchen Carlson was a journalist, supposedly. Never heard her or anyone at her network look into this problem and the abuse of arbitration clauses in non-high end employment contracts like hers.
She gleefully shackled herself though and happily trashed anyone and everyone for $$$$.
Oh, for F’s sake, now she’s hooking up with the Democrats? It never fails. Once the shit happens to THEM, suddenly they’re all liberal and shit. Oh, go away, Gretchen.
I hear Trump TV is hiring but you have to bring your own smart phone video cam…classy.
Gretchen Carlson To Testify Before Congress On Forced Arbitration Laws
So, are they going to provide her with a glass-fronted desk? Do wonders for C-span’s ratings.
Wow. The author used the word “friendship” in relation to a blatantly political alliance.
I know she’s, like, super young and junk, but really?
Maybe Marshall can let us all know how many Prime subscribers he’ll need so that he can hire an actual editor?
It is truly written that a conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just lost his job.
She got $20 M and Ailes got $40 M. There’s no justice in that.
And a Libertarian is just a republican who wants to smoke weed…
You beat me to it. What a hero, advocating for all the others affected by an issue that hurts her personally. So how many segments has she done on welfare recipients eating steak and police being intimidated by minorities?
And the family of Tamir Rice got a $6 million dollar settlement from the city of Cleveland for his wrongful death. Don’t talk about justice.
Of course, FOX has a lot more money than the city of Cleveland.
If Carlson not being a complete pariah os what it takes to get political cover for restricting forced-arbitration contracts, then I’ll take that deal.
Btw, ultimately we have the Supreme Court to blame for this mess. They have a long line of infamously pro-corporate contract decisions. (My person favorite was one involving Carnival Cruise lines, where the court upheld a contract provision requiring all suits to be filed in Carnival’s pet jurisdiction, even though customers were not allowed to see the contract until they had paid for a nonrefundable ticket.)
Actually, a Libertarian is someone who is trying to convince everyone else that selfishness is a virtue.
Good for her to come out against forced arbitration but too bad she has to do it in front of a Congressional hearing probably dominated by a majority of GOP pols, all in favor of these horrible arbitration agreements. They are in part the reason we have forced arbitration agreements in big business, due to their unwillingness to put any restraints or regulations on their corporate donors.
Carlson has to look no further than GOP members in Congress that have refused to regulate anything that does business on Wall Street. Corporate Greed is at the heart of these agreements. The GOP have been won over by corporate lobbyists that have gotten their way imposing their clients’ objectives within the Republican Party, who by and large have supported shielding those corporations from lawsuits by their employees.
You can also thank the rightwing justices on the Supreme Court for bans on class-action lawsuits as well due to forced arbitration…Bad wingnut decisions make for bad law…and justice continues to be denied to most employees from the top on down. Settlements are the best most people can usually hope for. And guess who knows this well…the GOP Presidential candidate. That’s been his M.O. for years.
From this lengthy article (in case you can’t get in to see it):
More than a decade in the making, the move to block class actions was engineered by a Wall Street-led coalition of credit card companies and retailers, according to interviews with coalition members and court records. Strategizing from law offices on Park Avenue and in Washington, members of the group came up with a plan to insulate themselves from the costly lawsuits. Their work culminated in two Supreme Court rulings, in 2011 and 2013, that enshrined the use of class-action bans in contracts. The decisions drew little attention outside legal circles, even though they upended decades of jurisprudence put in place to protect consumers and employees.
One of the players behind the scenes, The Times found, was John G. Roberts Jr., who as a private lawyer representing Discover Bank unsuccessfully petitioned the Supreme Court to hear a case involving class-action bans. By the time the Supreme Court handed down its favorable decisions, he was the chief justice.