2716 REVIEW GRANTED Except in cases involving workers, like seamen and railroad employees, who are actually engaged in transporting goods or services across state lines, the Federal Arbitration Act pre-empts the section of California's Labor Code that purports to exempt claims for unpaid wages from arbitration.CitationFIRSTAMERICA v SWEENEY (Unpaid Wages) 79 CA4 1207 [See: 9 U.S.C., § 1 et seq; LabC 229; Craft v Campbell 177 F3 1083; Tenney v United 207 F2 450; Signal-Stat v Local 475 235 F2 298; Pietro v International 351 F2 576; Dickstein v duPont 443 F2 783]
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