
Unions & ESG and the IPCC Climate Report
Sustainability Now
00:00
The ESG Risk of a Unionized Amazon
From the outside, this looks like a great employer. The only way that we're able to see that there might be something else going on is when we're tracking all the controversies relating to labor management relations. There's even been accusations of punitive action brought against employees for taking too many bathroom breakes. Academic research is split on the overall impact that unionization has on a company's productivity. So we look at it as neither a good nor a bad thing for it to be formed. Yet once that union is formed, or even once big discussions about a union start to begin, in our viewm agement might want to begin working with their employees to understand why they feel their basic rights
Transcript
Play full episode