Nike and Unfair Labor Practices I. Introduction Nike has been accused of the unfair labor practice of sweatshop labor. A sweatshop is a place with hazardous working environments‚ extreme temperatures and abusive employers‚ hence the term sweat shop. Sweatshop workers work long days exceeding 14 hours and earn less than the living wage (Britanica‚ n.d.). While these conditions may be shocking to Americans and Modern Western Nations the notion of abusive working conditions is more attractive to
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Standards start to tighten after incidents of unethical behavior shake engineers and contractors Ethics are challenged everywhere‚ it seems. On Oct. 28‚ a U.S. prosecutor indicted Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff for allegedly lying to a grand jury‚ which ended a particularly bad week for the Bush administration. But it was also a bad week for other politicians around the U.S.‚ whose proven or suspected ethics lapses also made headlines‚ if not on the front page. While I. Lewis Libby
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Unethical Credit Card Practices The ethics of credit card companies has to be in question. They are one of the few businesses that can change the rules on you and there is currently nothing you can do about. The credit industry is not your friend. They want to get you to borrow money from them and to keep you in debt for as long as possible. This way they have a constant flow of revenue through the interest payments‚ late charge fees and over the limit fees. They have many practices and charges
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Wellbutrin and Avandia and included a criminal fine of $1 billion. The remaining $2 billion involves fines in connection with a civil settlement over the sales and marketing practices of the blockbuster asthma drug Advair and several other drugs (NY Times). GSK have not only violated the rules made by the FDA but also committed basic unethical behavior. Even though the $3 billion may seem like a large amount‚ it represent only a small portion of what Glaxo made on the drugs. According to IMS Health‚ Glaxo’s
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Nike and Global Labour Practices Nike and Global Labour Practices A case study prepared for the New Academy of Business Innovation Network for Socially Responsible Business by David F. Murphy & David Mathew The strategic concept for Nike entering the new century is to be an archetype of the responsible 21st century global company‚ in the sense that we are providing a sustainable footprint everywhere‚ not only with environmental performance‚ but with people performance as well. The triple
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Nike and International Labor Practices Nike has long been known as the only brand of shoes to wear. Since its inception in the early 1970s‚ teenagers have seen the brand’s “swoosh” as a mark of cool. With their celebrity endorsements with people like Tiger Woods‚ kids have wanted the shoes so that they could be like their sports star. Nike was headed to the top rung of the athletic shoe industry until it hit trouble in the 1990s with news leaking out about labor violations in its factories overseas
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Coors beer‚ a household name in the beer industry‚ is produced by the Adolph Coors Brewing Company which is based in Golden Colorado. Exactly how big is the Adolph Coors Brewing Company? As of 2001‚ the company ranked number three in beer sales‚ expanded into all 50 states. Currently Coors is the world ’s largest‚ single-site brewery. However‚ behind this imagery is a long history of discrimination‚ anti-labor policies‚ human rights violations and environmental ruin. The company was started by
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Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 1.1 Origins of Microsoft 2 1.2 Historical Background 2 2 What are the unethical practices by Microsoft? 2 2.1 Software bundling by Microsoft 2 2.2 Predatory Practices 4 2.3 Evangelism Practice 5 2.4 Unethical Labor practices 6 6 Conclusion 8 7 REFERENCE LIST 9 Introduction Microsoft is huge in its industry; most people say that it is actually a monopoly. Bill Gate is the chairman of Microsoft with his long time college
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UNETHICAL PRACTICES BY COCA COLA AND PEPSI INTRODUCATION: AUTHORIZATION: This report is being submitted to DR. Muhammad Khalili‚ Professor of business ethics‚ University of Wollongong in Dubai. The topic of the report is unethical issues of coca cola in comparison with Pepsi. Purpose of the Report: In today’s competitive world‚ many organizations are practicing unethical practices to increase their productivity and profit without caring for the consequences of their actions. In order to stay ahead
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but it really encourages products made outside the USA. As a result‚ Wal-Mart has forced many manufacturers out of business. As a matter of fact‚ this big giant is facing a significant amount of controversy for unethical business practices. In fact‚ some of these unethical business practices include the following. Labor Union Opposition: Wal-Mart is a non union organization that feels it does not need third party intervention. So‚ instead of unions‚ Wal-Mart has an open door policy that encourages
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