EP 1013 Fighting to Stop Corporate Bad Practices

 Labor unions taught many activist groups how to organize to improve working conditions and how to push back against strong corporations.  For the last fifty years or so, union strength has eroded and corporate America has had a stranglehold on the politics of this nation.  We’ve seen the results–jobs shipped overseas, inferior quality coming back in return and further environmental degradation.  If corporate interests, particularly in the aftermath of the Citizens United decision in 2010, bankroll so much of our politics who is left to stand up and fight for social justice, environmental and health standards?  In many cases it’s been left to corporate campaign movements to stop bad practices as whistleblowers, non-profits and non- governmental organizations do battle for what is right.  Michael Marx, once a corporate insider, has been fighting the good fight more recently as an internationally respected environmental corporate campaign director and founder of Corporate Ethics International.  In his book “Reining in the Bulls: How to Stop Corporate Abuse in an Age of Unbridled Greed,” he lays out the strategies that he employed in taking on companies like Mitsubishi, Home Depot, Walmart and Exxon/Mobil.

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