Corporations Will Not Save Us: The Sham of Corporate Social Responsibility
TUESDAY, MAY 5, 2020
Last August, the Business Roundtable an association of CEOs of Americas biggest corporations announced with great fanfare a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders and not just their shareholders.
They said investing in employees, delivering value to customers, and supporting outside communities is now at the forefront of their business goals not maximizing profits.
Baloney. Corporate social responsibility is a sham.
One Business Roundtable director is Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors. Just weeks after making the Roundtable commitment, and despite GMs hefty profits and large tax breaks, Barra rejected workers demands that GM raise their wages and stop outsourcing their jobs. Earlier in the year GM shut its giant assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio.
Nearly 50,000 GM workers then staged the longest auto strike in 50 years. They won a few wage gains but didnt save any jobs. Barra was paid $22 million last year. Hows that for corporate social responsibility?
More:
https://robertreich.org/post/617299740358574080
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)I_UndergroundPanther
(12,462 posts)Take thier charters away.
Take thier profits away and stop capitalism. It's destroying everything.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)All the talk about looting during the protests..
Corporations have been looting the public for decades.
They JUST looted trillions of dollars in the form of bailouts - and not a peep.