Karina/special issue 03 interfacing the law

4 MAY

Unilever
https://www.unilever.com/legal.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever

"Unilever is organised into four main divisions: Personal Care (production and sale of skin care and hair care products, deodorants and oral care products); Foods (production and sale of soups, bouillons, sauces, snacks, mayonnaise, salad dressings, margarines and spreads); Refreshment (production and sale of ice cream, tea-based beverages, weight-management products and nutritionally enhanced staples sold in developing markets); and Home Care (production and sale of home care products including powders, liquids and capsules, soap bars and other cleaning products).[78] In the financial year ended 31 December 2013, Unilever had a total turnover of €49.797 billion of which 36% was from Personal Care, 27% from Foods, 19% from Refreshment and 18% from Home Care. Unilever invested a total of €1.04 billion in research and development in 2013.

Unilever is one of the largest media buyers in the world, and invested around €6 billion (US$8 billion) in advertising and promotion in 2010."

Products - 13 $1 billion brands

• Axe
• Dove
• Heartbrand
• Hellmann’s
• Knorr
• Lipton
• Lux
• Magnum
• Omo
• Rama
• Rexona
• Sunsilk
• Surf

Lipton Tea
https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1073495-d3655567-Reviews-Lipton_s_Seat-Haputale_Uva_Province.html

Anual Report 2015
https://www.unilever.com/Images/annual_report_and_accounts_ar15_tcm244-478426_en.pdf

More reports
https://www.unilever.com/sustainable-living/sustainable-living-news/reports-and-publications/index.html

Bad press
Former manager sues Unilever over ‘illegal’ sacking (Daily Nation, June 2012)
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Former-manager-sues-Unilever-over-illegal-sacking-/1056-1431282-ei34nh/index.html

Atwoli: dismissal of Unilever tea workers illegal (3 years ago)
http://www.hivisasa.com/posts/3912
"The court heard that the Kericho-based tea company dismissed a group of workers on diverse dates between November 2013 and April 2014 on allegations of violating a document termed as Code of Business Principles... The Kenya Plantation and Agricultural Workers Union on Thursday moved to the industrial court to stop the eviction orders by the tea company claiming the code of business principles was not brought to the attention of the employees."
Unilever Code of Business Principles
https://www.unilever.co.uk/Images/4394-cobp-code-policies-booklet-external.v12_tcm1252-409220_en.pdf

Unilever admits toxic dumping: will clean up but not come clean (Greenpeace, June 2001)
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/media/press-releases/unilever-admits-toxic-dumping-will-clean-up-but-not-come-clean
"The company has also agreed to undertake a clean-up of 5.3 tons of mercury wastes it illegally dumped at a local scrapyard, but it is still refusing to accept that local people and workers at the factory in Kodiakanal may have been exposed to the highly toxic metal."

Tesco and Unilever fail test (The Guardian, January 2005)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2005/jan/29/supermarkets.unilever

Ethical Consumer Information Systems
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/shoppingethically/ourethicalratings/environment.aspx#pollution
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/portals/0/downloads/categoriesa4.pdf

• environmental reporting
• climate change
• pollution & toxics
• habitats & resources
• palm oil

Ethical Consumer Research Association
http://www.corporatecritic.org/info/rr/ethiscore.aspx

• A company Ethiscore of 0 to 15 points. 15 is the best Ethiscore and 0 worst
• A product Ethiscore of 0 to 20 points. 20 is the best Ethiscore and 0 worst.

Ethiscores divided into categories
http://www.corporatecritic.org/categories.aspx

• Environment
  • Environmental Reporting
  • Climate Change
  • Pollution & Toxics
  • Habitats & Resources
  • Palm Oil
• Animals
  • Animal Testing
  • Factory Farming
  • Animal Rights
• People
  • Human Rights
  • Workers' Rights
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Irresponsible Marketing
  • Arms & Military Supply
• Politics
  • Controversial Technologies
  • Boycott Call
  • Political Activities
  • Anti-Social Finance
  • Company Ethos (+ve)
• Product sustainability (+ve)
  • Organic Product (+ve)
  • Fairtrade Product (+ve)
  • Environmental Features (+ve )
  • Other Sustainability Features (+ve)
  • Animal Welfare Features (+ve)

Subscribe to see Ethiscores
http://www.corporatecritic.org/login/subscribe.aspx

• Annual Rate: £899 (ex VAT)
• Annual "Not for Profit" Rate: £699 (ex VAT)
• Monthly Rate: £150 (ex VAT)
• Monthly "Not for Profit" Rate: £120 (ex VAT)
• Daily Rate: £20.83 (ex VAT)

still managed to find some info without subscription. ethiscore 7/15

11 APRIL

good site if you want to use a site without making a login. check whether it also works for websites discussed on 10/04
http://bugmenot.com

10 APRIL

pzi pad
https://pad.pzimediadesign.nl/p/ifl.hnimeeting_100417

evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/be246973-d2c6-4610-9b59-14fdeeca02ff/cf92fe33ff257154f038298668861bc6

Balázs Bodó - Libraries in the post-scarcity era
https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2341818/162448_Libraries_in_the_post_scarcity_era.pdf

4 APRIL

evernote
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s368/sh/527452fc-0b88-4c3c-b169-63d34a849344/f1e8ac2e39abd89abeceeb1e47c93fc6