General Electric and 3rd World Workers
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Description: Corporate Monitor reported GE unions asked for minimum fairness for third world workers.
JULY/AUGUST 1997 · VOLUME 18 · NUMBERS 7 & 8 THERE WAS A NEW TWIST in the old contract talk routine when General Electric and unions at its U.S. factories faced off in New York in late May. The unions wanted what any workers would ask of the world's leading manufacturing corporation after a decade of superprofits when U.S. employment was slashed in half. For starters, they wanted job security, shorter career work time, and better pensions. But in a departure that unions at other big multinational manufacturing companies in Europe and the United States may soon emulate, the union coalition demanded that GE also negotiate a corporate code of conduct governing its worldwide operations. That code would protect worker rights, especially the right to organize, but it would also commit the company to sustainable environmental policies, safe and healthy workplaces, ethical behavior and respect for communities where it is located.
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