Franken's amendment does away with mandatory arbitration clauses:
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To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or independent contractors sign mandatory arbitration clauses regarding certain claims.
You & those 30 republicans who voted nay want no such thing:
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Mandatory arbitration is common corporate practice. It protects corporations by channelling claims into a private system that can be kept confidential, is prohibitively expensive, and often works in favour of the corporations. It saves money. It was that – money – which KBR acted to protect. KBR isn't pro-rape, it's pro-profit. Mandatory arbitration allowed it to weigh the bruised and bleeding body of a woman and the sacredness of the law against its own revenue.
KBR has arranged, in the interests of profit, a working environment wherein its employees are beyond the reach of the law if they commit crimes, and unable to rely on the law if they are victimised. And, unsurprisingly, when employees can get away with crimes, they commit them.
Jones says that no fewer than 11 women have come to her to report similar assaults. It's exceedingly unlikely that KBR (or the other defence contractors for whom these women may have worked) could be less aware than Jones of the other assaults committed by their employees. In fact, if Jones's account is to be believed, KBR worked with disturbing efficiency to remove Jones as a threat and scare her into silence.
Now, thanks to Franken's amendment, If Halliburton and KBR continue to maintain policies that require arbitration in the case of violent crimes and discrimination, they will lose their government contracts. But that requires the people who are hurt or discriminated against to report the crimes in the first place.
Consider: Jones only got out of that storage container because she was able to get a mobile phone from a guard and called her father. KBR recently banned employee use of mobile phones.
Just corporate policy, of course. Just business.
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