Amid Amazon.com Inc.’s (“Amazon”) rapid growth, worrying patterns with respect to employee health and safety, infringement of international labour standards, and aversion to collective bargaining have emerged. This investor report provides an overview of Amazon and describes workforce risks in its (...)
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Amazon In-Depth: Work, Rights and Risks at Amazon.com, Inc.
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Investor Brief: Grupo México
This investor brief summarizes environmental, social, and governance risks at Grupo México, the third largest copper mining company in the world. Grupo México’s wholly-owned subsidiary ASARCO operates copper mines, a smelter, a refinery and processing plants in the United States.
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Principles from the Global Unions Committee on Workers’ Capital on Asset Manager Responses to the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Principles lay out the investment stewardship principles that the CWC expects the asset management community to adopt as the world recovers, reinvests and rebuilds from the global pandemic over the coming months and years.
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Investor Brief: Amazon.com, Inc. and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Amazon’s explosive growth has accelerated as a result of COVID-19 public health restrictions, creating new stress on the company’s operations. The company faces challenges in keeping its workforce, its customers, and the communities it serves safe - challenges that are amplified under increased (...)
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Workforce Best Practices for COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need for companies to adopt best practices to protect their workers, their customers and the communities they serve.
We encourage companies to adopt a set of recommended policies and practices that were developed in consultation with occupational and (...)