Hello again
Today the Swiss social NGO SOLIFONDS alerted me to the following website denouncing the Swiss multinational food corporation, Nestlé's curious sense of corporate social responsibility. See for yourself at http://www.iuf.org/cgi-bin/dbman/db.cgi?db=default&uid=default&ID=4670&view_records=1&ww=1&en=1 -- I am quoting the first two paragraphs:
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Nestlé Profits from Tropical Storm in Dominican Republic to Replace Permanent Workers with Temps
While Nestlé CEO Peter Brabeck was extolling the company's corporate social responsibility record in developing countries before an audience at the ILO in Geneva [see link on website], Nestlé management in the Dominican Republic was offering up their own interpretation of how to "create shared value" in communities in which the company operates.
Tropical storm Noel pounded across the Dominican Republic and Haiti in late October, causing mudslides and flash flooding, leaving thousands homeless and affecting hundreds of thousands more. With the devastating consequences of the passage of the storm still palpable, and the process of recovery and rebuilding only just begun, Nestlé has added to the suffering of eleven victims of the storm's devastation by firing them from their jobs at the ice cream factory in Santo Domingo.
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**** from IUF Uniting Food, Farm and Hotel Workers Worldwide
Sunday, November 25, 2007
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