Today, the Supreme
Court’s ruled that companies can use arbitration clauses to block employees
from banding together in class action suits. Today’s opinion resolved three
cases that were argued together on the first day of the term: Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, Ernst &
Young LLP v. Morris and National Labor Relations Board v. Murphy Oil USA.
In the 5-4 decision written by Justice Gorsuch, the court ruled in favor of
employers forcing employees to sign away many of their rights to sue their
employers. Editor of ThinkProgress Justice, Ian Millhiser, joins me
to breakdown what the decision means for millions of American workers.
Since we last spoke
with John Nichols of The Nation a lot has happened—another
horrific school shooting, the Supreme Court ruling in favor of employers over
workers in arbitration cases, and Trump’s latest Twitter storm about the Russia
investigation. John returns to the show
today to talk all about these issues and whole lot more, John is The Nation’s national-affairs
correspondent, a contributing writer for The
Progressive and In These Times
and the associate editor of The Capital
Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.
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