Society Issues Business Allegedly Unethical Firms

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• BAE Systems - Criticizes Europe's largest arms exporter as greedy and a supporter of dictatorships.
• Baker Book House - 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.
• Bank Julius Baer - Wikileaks alleges that this bank abets tax fraud.
• Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents - Tobacco industry documents subpoenaed from the Council for Tobacco Research, Brown and Williamson, Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco, and the Tobacco Institute.
• Dow Jones - Parody site created by RTMark that focuses on the Bhopal controversy.
• Edumacation - DirectBuy - Collecting articles, complaints, consumer comments, and reports of litigation involving DirectBuy, formerly known as UCC TotalHome and United Consumers Club.
• Eye On Wackenhut - Union-maintained site focused on the second largest private security company in the United States, which is alleged to cut corners in hiring, training, and oversight. News articles, whistleblower case reports, and other resources.
• FAIR - News Corp / Fox - Ongoing collection of reports on bias by Fox News. By the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting.
• False Advertising by The Bosley Medical Institute - 10 things you should know about The Bosley Medical Group. From Attorney General's consumer protection lawsuit, medical board violations, consumer oriented site.
• General Dynamics and TRW - Senate investigations called it a "Multi-billion dollar boondogle." Lengthy U.S. Senate transcript shows a few details of defense industry unethical profits.
• Home Depot Sucks - 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.
• How I Sued PayPal And Won - Federal judge found Legal Disputes section of PayPal's User Agreement substantively unconscionable.
• Huntingdon Life Science Protest - Documentation of this international firm's violation of laws in using animals for testing.
• International Paper Hall of Shame - OSHA, EPA, and Clean Air Act Violations with pictures. From a union organizing site.
• Jumpstart Ford - Campaign to tell Ford Motor Company to manufacturing the most fuel-inefficient cars in America and stop fueling America's oil addiction and global warming.
• LeaseComm - Dedicated to informing about Leasecomm, its business practices and its legal troubles.
• Made in China - 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.
• Mitsubishi! - Tracks Mitsubishi group's activities, focusing on workplace discrimination, consumer complaints, and environmental issues.
• Multinational Monitor - 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.
• New York City Transit - Subways, buses and general transportation in and around the city of New York.
• Notice to the Public Regarding GothCon - Alleges that GothCon is not supporting the charities it claims it is.
• Oil is Thicker than Blood - The role of oil company Talisman Energy (formerly British Petroleum Canadia) and co-conspirators in genocide taking place in Sudan.
• Pressler and Pressler - Discusses questionable conduct of a collection firm and shows how to deal with it.
• Report Scams Here - The scam message board allows consumers to post their bad experiences and inform the public.
• ScamFraudAlert - Discussion board covering varied topics such as financial fraud, consumer issues and alleged internet scams.
• ServiceMaster Consumer Issues - Information about ServiceMaster and its subsidiaries including lawsuits, governmental investigations, employee comments, and consumer complaints.
• Sony Anti Environmental Efforts - 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.
• Stop Waste Management - 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.
• Tobacco from Spain - 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.
• Topsites LLC and MyDirectory LLC - An investigation into misleading "renewal notice" spam for the Topsites.us web directory, including traffic analysis and background business details.
• Virgin Air Crew Lies - Claims of abuse and harassment of passengers by Virgin Atlantic Airways flight attendants.

• Plastic - Pepsi Pulls Rank At Oregon High School - 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. (November 4, 2002)
• Guardian - The Cookbook Any Firm Can Follow - 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. (June 28, 2002)
• Six Firms Added to Saipan Sweatshop Lawsuit - Levi Strauss, Calvin Klein, Brooks Brothers, Abercrombie and Fitch, The Talbots and Woolrich added to a class-action lawsuit alleging sweatshop conditions in factories in the Northern Mariana Islands. (May, 2000)
• The China Lobby's Campaign for Two-Way Trade with China - 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] (June, 1997)