“We all live in …” is often part of a solidarity rallying cry, like “We all live in Wisconsin” expressing unity against union busting, or “We all live in Bhopal” showing support after the devastating 1984 gas disaster.  (“We all live in a Yellow Submarine” does not count!)

So today, we all live in Arbitration Land.  If it takes professional dancers to make you understand that you live there too, then so be it.  In this case, those dancers would be the Oakland Raider cheerleaders who are trying to file a class action against the Raiders for “routinely breaking California labor law” by being paid less than minimum wage and working under “a paternalistic set of rules that not only infantilizes grown women, but also makes demands that no employer should have the right to make.”  Plus, they get paid only once, at theend of the season.

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