Ruan Lawsuit

Ooo just another day in Associated at St Louis. If I can still find the place.

They ever close that joint yet?

A few knots is just a immune system stimulant. LOL.

 

I won a relatively minor case via Maryland Courts against one of my employers years ago. They cut the miles to next to nothing hoping I quit. I had about 10K in savings that tide me over a couple of months waiting for a load while burning fuel.

It took me that long before a lawyer taught me that going up against a company that has a market cap of about a billion dollars overall is pretty stupid. No wonder you lost your money, You aint gonna see it again. It's gone. But unemployment ruled in my favor and against the employer so there is that small victory. There was one specific result of that ruling through. The day after it was handed down, the company stopped taking applications or new hires from Maryland. So it hurt many more people.

 

Complete lie. SMH

 

I'm going to tell everybody reading right now, to never sign a pre-dispute arbitration agreement. For some reason, employers love these things. After you quit your good job and went over to the new company, about 4 hours into the orientation process, they try to slip it in your paperwork. An employer who wants you to sign this, is an unscrupulous employer. Arbitration agreements frustrate your basic civil right to the legal system. They also contain ridiculous provisions which are usually biased and one-sided in the employer's favor, and walk a thin line between "unfair" and "unenforceable."

This is the issue with labor unions. They have internal grievance procedures and arbitration hearings, which you must first exhaust before filing a complaint directly in court. If ever possible, get a letter from your union stating they will take no action on your behalf in a grievance hearing. That alone is enough to get your case heard in court. I'm guessing that the court system rejected your claim because the arbitration was "final and binding," which is a load of BS. The arbitrator doesn't even have to follow the law. The arbitrator is probably a repeat customer of the employer who violates the law. There are conflicts of interest that don't even have to be DISCLOSED when a case goes to arbitration. There are serious limits on discovery and what you can present as evidence. It is also very expensive, and because it is private rather than public, the employer has little incentive to settle or else be held accountable.

Never sign that arbitration agreement. If they want you to sign it, tell them to suck it and walk out the door. Or just don't sign it and let them think you did. If you can get away with that, you can usually circumvent the arbitration agreement. In that scenario, the employer thinks you're screwed because you "signed the arbitration agreement ," and then your secret weapon is that you never signed it in the first place.

I'm getting too excited over this. Nail them, and nail them hard. Good luck..

 

There's ten minutes I'll never get back.

 

If we actually followed all the regulations, the economy would collapse. Almost no one is being hurt the way things are commonly done compared to most of the rest of the world.
A certain number of deaths and injuries are just the price of doing business, it is impractically expensive to make everything perfectly safe and compliant.

If the OP went after a couple items he considered egregious and stuck to his guns, then i could take him seriously but he says he has made HUNDREDS of complaints. That is a bit odd. I would not keep an employee who never stops complaining and seems bent on destroying my business. Only a SJW type would expect an employer to put up with that.

 

Sometimes, what we outsiders interpret as shady conduct is just the company trying to protect itself from malingerers and opportunists. If I was meeting a payroll, I'd be suspicious too.