unethical issues of starbucks
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Starbucks Info History Contradiction in what they say and what they do stories behind Starbuck’s negative scores FAIR TRADE COFFEETRANSCRIPT
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Starbucks &
Ethics
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STARBUCKS AND ETHICS
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• CEO had a pay raise by 25% in 2009,
a year in which the company reduced its work force by 19%
• Starbucks refused for six years to give into pressure from campaigners to ban the genetically engineered artificial ‘recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone’ from its dairy supply chain .
• Providing the Guantanamo Bay prison camp with Starbucks coffee kiosks
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Starbucks hasn’t paid a penny in tax for three years
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Some of the stories behind Starbuck’s negative scores
WORKFORCE SECURITY • The US National Lawyers Guild accuses Starbucks of a “relentless and
illegal anti-union campaign” and “retaliatory firing” of union organizers .
• According to the Starbucks Workers Union it provides US staff with worse health care coverage
• A US court ordered the company to pay more than $100 million into the accounts of its low wage staff in California after ruling that it had improperly required the workers to share tips with their bosses
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FAIR TRADE COFFEE
Is It Really Fair?
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CONCLUSIONEthics are important for managing a sustainable business mainly because of
the serious consequences that can result from decisions made with a lack of regard to ethics. A lack of ethics leads to a wealth of problems for a business
• Legal Issues
• Employee Performance
• Employee Relations
• Company Credibility
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• http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/mediainfo/pressreleases/mediareleasecoffeeshops.aspx
• www.nlg.org/news/statements/StarbucksUnion2006.htm
• http://www.starbucksunion.org/news/faced-growing-uproar-starbucks-settles-sixth-labor-complaint