The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau adopted a rule earlier this year to weaken a company’s ability to make arbitration mandatory, allowing more people to file or join a lawsuit to press their complaints. By barring individuals from joining collective lawsuits with these clauses, fewer people are willing to challenge corporations in court, effectively concealing potential wrongdoing, she said.īeyond Equifax, Werner said that such clauses are widely used. As former Equifax CEO Richard Smith prepares to testify before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, activist Amanda Werner looks on through a monocle.
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“Once I got it, I went full in and just did as many visual gags as I could.” Werner and her colleagues also hand delivered “get out of jail free cards” to all 100 Senate offices yesterday, she said.įorced arbitration clauses are wielded by corporations to escape accountability, Werner said.
(As many close observers have noted, the Monopoly man does not, in fact, wear a monocle.) “I was able to figure out, by having seen a lot of these hearings, which seat would be most visible,” she said. Those included dabbing invisible sweat off her brow with ridiculously large paper money bills, and using her monocle to gaze intently at Smith, with mock curiosity. Werner chose a seat just behind Smith - where cameras would capture her - and performed live-action trolling throughout the hearing.