Allegedly Unethical Firms Business Issues

Allegedly Unethical Firms Business Issues

Allegedly Unethical Firms

This category is for sites about alleged violations of business ethics. Complaints about slow service or dissatisfaction with a product that do not reflect on corporate ethics should be submitted to Consumer Information: Complaints.

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- Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
- Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
- The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan.
- 1500 Canadian Airlines retirees fight to have Air Canada reinstate their travel benefits.
- A UK customer site warning of the pitfalls of purchasing cigarettes and tobacco via the Internet (particularly tobaccofromspain.com), from other EU countries. Links to similar sites.
- Criticizes the Benson & Hedges Symphony of Fire, a promotional event held in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver every summer.
- States that AOL paid a $3.5 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the government financial watchdog, to settle charges that bear a close similarity to those in the WorldCom case.
- Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.
- A high school cheerleader hits upon the idea of selling bottled water at sports games, with labels bearing her school logo. But her plan runs into trouble when Pepsi gets wind of it. With news and reader comments.
- A leaked document shows Sony has been monitoring environmental activists for the purpose of undercutting their pressure to reduce toxic waste in the manufacturing of electronics.
- 10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
- Ongoing collection of reports on bias by Fox News. By the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
- Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands.
- Opposition to the retail chain for sourcing and selling old growth lumber. Company claims they will phase out this lumber by 2002. Also has customer/employee "horror stories" and links to other anti-HD websites.
- Complaints against Paypal and eBay.
- Criticizes Europe's largest arms exporter as greedy and a supporter of dictatorships.
- Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
- Article lists the 20 largest US corporations giving "soft" political money to push for China's Most Favored Nation status and admission to the WTO. [Multinational Monitor]
- OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
- National Labor Committee report on the role of various U.S. and multinational contractors in the People's Republic of China, describing factory working and living conditions, imprisonment of labor activists, and other abuses.
- Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown & Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute.
- Documents allegations against Waste Management Inc. (also known as WMI, WMX, Chem Waste, and other names), including environmental degradation, racism, and bribery. Includes text of a book by Charles Cray.
- An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details.
- Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
- Describes lawyer's harassment of a website legally publishing thousands of public-domain and permission-granted texts, alleging somewhere among them were some unspecified texts with permission granted improperly.
- Archived documentation and links by the National Labor Committee about abusive factories that produce Liz Claiborne clothing.
- Explains the practice of loaning to poorer or less informed people when the likely result is an unfavorable outcome for such customers, and links to resources to combat it.
- Follow an ongoing citizen's racketeering suit against UNUM Provident.
- Site by a group of former Apple Computer Authorized Resellers suing the company for fraud, breach of contract, unfair competition and false advertising.
- Criticizes Aviva Insurance Group for a history of deception, unpaid claims of its Holocaust-era subsidiaries, and suspicious name change.
- Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
- Chevron Oil has admitted it paid and transported Nigerian military and police troops who shot and killed unarmed Nigerian activists peacefully protesting on one of the company's offshore oil rigs.
- English version of German activist site that publishes information about firms they've found that violate human rights or basic environmental practices.
- True stories from the former employees of the now-defunct iMind Education Systems.
- Alleges human rights abuses and complicity in killing Nigerian civilians, calling on World Bank to discriminate in its investments.
- Message Board containing comments from employees who work at The Fresh Market chain of Grocery Stores located in the southeastern U.S.
- Discusses questionable conduct of a collection firm and shows how to deal with it.
- Links to protest, news, and consumer educational sites about the USA mutual, bank, insurance, and annuities conglomerate.
- Tells about the practices of the Who's Who Historical Society, a company of Gibraltar Publishing: What they promise, how they recruit members, what the results of membership are and how they try to prevent members from cancelling their membership.
- Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
- The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
- Read student opinions and experiences.
- Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
- Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.

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