Less than a week after announcing a 30 percent pay raise for its workers, electronics giant Foxconn said it will hike wages by another 66 percent beginning in October. The company said it hoped the pay raise would help increase…
Stung by labor shortages and a rash of suicides this year at its massive factories in southern China, Foxconn Technology said Wednesday that it would immediately raise the salaries of many of its Chinese workers by 33 percent. The pay…
En Afrique, l’équipementier racheté en 2007 par le franà§ais PPR (actionnaire à 62,1%), joue à domicile. La marque revendique l’attachement de la marque au continent noir et à ses athlètes. Depuis 2002, il y multiplie les partenariats : sponsor maillots…
Environmental groups have attacked a national press campaign by Shell as ” ill-timed and “at best cynical and at worse downright dishonest”. Shell, the oil company, today (May 28) launched a series of full-page national ads in today’s Times, Guardian,…
Global leaders barred, arrested, and ejected from Annual Meeting for exposing the truth about Chevron’s human rights. Houston, TX - At Chevron’s shareholder meeting today the company faced outrage for its continued lies, deception, silencing of critics, and human rights…
This is the second of a three part articles series on ethical issues related to the jewelery industry. Part 1 examined the global context and problems, ethical as well as ecological, related to the mining of precious stones. This present…
A federal jury on Monday found that the U.S. unit of Swiss drug maker Novartis AG engaged in a "pattern or practice" of discrimination against its female employees. In its fifth day of deliberations, the jury of four men and…
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has reduced carbon dioxide emissions at major U.S. facilities by 31 percent, on a revenue-adjusted basis, since 2002. During the same period, normalized for revenues, the company has reduced energy consumption 32 percent, hazardous-waste generation 38 percent…
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is running image-boosting ads in major U.S. newspapers, touting its work counselling cash-strapped homeowners and extending credit to small businesses. Bank of America is spending millions on a series of spots highlighting the bank's role in…
TFT to Follow Palm Oil Back to Source for Nestlé; Swiss Giant Commits to Excluding Suppliers that Destroy Forests. Greenpeace Welcomes Agreement as "Very Positive" 17 May 2010. The Forest Trust (TFT) announced today that Swiss consumer goods company Nestlé…
