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Is it ethical to buy an iPhone or iPad made in a Chinese sweatshop?

  My amazing iPhone 3GS was made in Foxconn’s huge factory in Shenzen, China, where workers toil long hours under unhealthy and downright dangerous conditions, put in forced, unpaid overtime, sleep in...

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Update: Foxconn, maker of iPhones and iPads, announces big pay raise

  Foxconn Technology, maker of iPhones, iPads, and countless other consumer electronics goods, announced Saturday an immediate pay raise of 16%-25%, to about $400 a month,  for the lowest paid workers...

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Nike’s unethical; Apple maybe not so much

  Nike shoes are a bargain at $220 a pair. They must be, else why would hundreds of people have showed up Thursday at a Greenwood, Indiana, mall, according to the police report, “panicking to get to...

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Special offer on ethics seminars, and on The Ethics Challenge

To mark two years of EthicsBob.com and 25,000 views I’m celebrating with these two offers: 1) I’ll visit your workplace or school and do a one-hour seminar on either ·         The Ethics Challenge:...

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Hooray for Apple CEO Tim Cook for seriously addressing labor issues in China....

  Business ethics presents a dilemma when it comes to purchases from low-wage countries. Cheap labor in China makes cool iPhones for us, and cheap labor in Indonesia makes snazzy Nikes. But should an...

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Vast Mexico Bribery Case Hushed Up by Wal-Mart

After Top-Level Struggle Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New...

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1) I’ll visit your workplace or school and do a pro bono seminar on either ·       The Ethics Challenge: Essential Skills for Leading and Living, or ·       The ABCs of Ethical Leadership If the...

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Subway’s ‘FOOTLONG’ is a description, not a measurement

  Years ago on a cold day I bought a hot dog from a vendor outside Philadelphia’s Franklin Field, and after biting into it and getting a chill in my teeth I asked the boy who sold it how he could call...

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Is it ethical to eat Chick-fil-A?

The other night I attended the grand opening of Westwood Village’s newest restaurant, a Chick-fil-A. C.R., the young owner (all, or most of the brand’s restaurants are privately owned), welcomed us...

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