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Can it be that our green heroes Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt care about the cachet of owning a Prius
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A report from the National Labor Committee released earlier this month, alleging abusive working conditions in Japanese Toyota Prius plants, provides a much needed jolt to the
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Corporations are still largely reactive on social issues. For more than a decade, labour and social responsibility advocates highlighted abusive working conditions of global suppliers providing goods for Gap, Nike, Wndal-Mart a other corporate icons. Despite evidence that similar conditions existed in other industrial sectors, Corporate America continued to basically turn a deaf ear. National Labor Committee research touched off allegations back in 1996 that Kathie
components of blind Lee Gifford''''s clothing line sold at Wal-Mart was made under sweatshop conditions, resulting in worldwide front-page headlines, components of blind the involvement of then-Labor Secretary Robert Reich and a presidential commission to improve supply chain working conditions.
The largest and most well funded US environmental groups focus too narrowly on the environmental implications of broad social issues. It''''s hard to find substantive concern about worker safety in the agendas of the Natural Resources Defense Council or Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), two heavyweight groups helping Wal-Mart fulfill its green agenda. They should be concerned about worker exposure to cadmium leading to kidney failure at Chinese battery factories serving the US market,
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Domestic and foreign Wal-Mart suppliers often act out of fear, not goodwill. Fast Company has profiled domestic suppliers like Vlasic pickles and Huffy bicycles, both of which suffered from the company''''s relentless low pricing demands. It''''s a considerably more difficult expectation that thousands of suppliers in China will go solar or clean up wastewater discharged while making low-priced goods for US consumers. It''''s hard to imagine these suppliers greening through components of blind some kind of reward system without a fundamental transformation of the low pricing model.
How will EDF and Wal-Mart coax suppliers into paying for clean up when they are already being squeezed by the company''''s buyers to produce goods at rock bottom rates that perpetuate abusive working conditions? In January,
components of blind CEO Lee Scott discussed greening the company''''s supply chain and said the company "will favour – components of blind and in some cases, even pay more – for suppliers that meet our standards and share our commitment to quality and sustainability."
