VII are equally applicable to the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel.”). In addition to its core holding, the Gardner-Denver Court expressed doubts about the competence of arbitrators to evaluate and decide statutory claims, and about the validity of union-negotiated waivers of employees’ federal forum rights for statutory claims. 415 U.S. at 51-52, 56-61, 94 S.Ct. 1011. In subsequent years, the Supreme Court has disavowed Gardner-Denver’s anti-arbitration language as misguided, and clarified that an arbitration agreement can constitute an enforceable waiver of judicial forum for statutory civil rights claims regardless whether negotiated individually or collectively. See Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp., 500 U.S. 20, 26, 111 S.Ct. 1647, 114 L.Ed.2d 26 (1991) (<HOLDING>); Wright v. Universal Mar. Serv. Corp., 525
holding that an arbitration agreement that was invalid due to unconscionability was not enforceable holding that the faa requires arbitration of age discrimination claims when a valid arbitration agreement exists holding that a party seeking to compel arbitration must establish the existence of an arbitration agreement and show that the claims raised fall within the scope of that agreement holding individually negotiated arbitration agreement encompassing statutory claims enforceable holding that trial court properly denied motion to compel arbitration of claims for fraud and unfair and deceptive trade practices because arbitration clause in agreement only applied to indemnification claims and there were no other arbitration clauses in agreement