The New York Times’ recent hard-hitting series shows how corporations use the fine print of contracts to eliminate their customers’ and workers’ right to sue in court when harmed. 

The companies use their one-sided contracts to require consumers and workers to resolve disputes in private forced arbitration instead of in open court. That’s right. If we are injured by corporate rip-offs or misconduct, we cannot go to court if their fine-print terms include a forced arbitration clause.

The in-depth NYT investigation describes how corporate executives got together to promote and spread this stealth attack on our legal rights, including adding a further restriction to prohibit us from joining together in class actions.

So now millions of us must surrender our right to go to court in order to get a job, take out a loan, and even to be admitted into a nursing home.

It’s time for Congress to put end to the corporate practice of forced arbitration. Corporations must stop stripping people of their legal rights once and for all.

Sign the petition.