NCLC testimony before the New York State Assembly on the harms of forced arbitration clauses

Thank you for this opportunity to speak to you about forced arbitration on behalf of the National Consumer Law Center and its low-income clients. The National Consumer Law Center is immensely interested in forced arbitration and the effects that it has on our clients. The Center sees this issue as presenting a fundamental challenge not only to our fundamental rights to access a public forum but also to economic justice and fairness. I am a contributing author at the National Consumer Law Center, where I specialize in forced arbitration, and a staff attorney at Towards Justice, where I represent low-wage workers in litigation involving workers’ rights.
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