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Today, Explained

Arbitration Nation

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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The Supreme Court may have taken away your ability to file a class action lawsuit against your employer. In a 5-4 decision yesterday, the Court decided that workers who signed contracts with arbitration clauses aren’t allowed to band together and sue their employers. Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern says the ruling is just the latest setback to tens of millions of American workers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Johnny Harris, you're going to Hong Kong.

0:02.7

You're taking your quip electric toothbrush

0:04.7

because you're going to get quip.com slash explained,

0:07.4

do you go to Hong Kong all the time?

0:09.0

Is this a special thing?

0:09.8

No, this is a very special thing.

0:10.8

I've never been to Hong Kong.

0:12.3

I am going as part of my job.

0:15.0

I make documentaries about borders.

0:18.8

And for those who don't know,

0:20.4

there's a very interesting border between Hong Kong

0:24.1

and mainland China that I'm going to go film

0:26.7

and make videos about.

0:27.6

Maybe you can tell us a little bit more about it.

0:29.0

I would love to.

0:29.8

Great.

0:30.7

I'd love to.

0:43.2

You know when you want a job and you interview for that job,

0:46.3

and then somehow through some stroke of luck,

0:48.5

you actually get that job.

0:50.8

And then you have to sign some long incomprehensible contract.

0:54.3

And you're like, yeah, whatever, just give me the job already.

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