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...shadowy industry has sprung up in China in recent years that caters to factory owners anxious to disguise breaches of clients' codes of conduct - illegal overtime, say, or a lack of fire extinguishers on the factory floor. Unscrupulous consultants offer quick fixes before a factory is audited; for a price, they can even pose as a fake management team to convince auditors that a sound leadership structure is in place. Factory owners can also buy computer software that presets the times when workers punch in and out, so no illegal overtime shows up on time cards. Lower-tech tactics, employed...
...remove them and find them schooling, for which Gap sometimes pays. The firm's new thinking, says Dan Henkle, Gap's senior vice-president for social responsibility, is not simply about monitoring, but about collaborating with factory staff so that they too feel responsible for conditions on the factory floor. It's messier, costlier and longer-term than a quick audit - and it's potentially riskier from a p.r. standpoint. But this is CSR for grown-ups. "The world is a complicated place," says Impactt's Hurst. "Try putting that on a label...
...fair, no one ever called Lieberman-Warner itself inevitable. Sponsored by Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Republican John Warner of Virginia, and taken to the floor by Democrat Barbara Boxer of California, the liberal chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the bill was never given much chance of passage. Its carbon-reduction targets were tougher than the business community wanted, but not as tough as many greens demanded. And it was complicated, even bloated - it would have raised $6.7 trillion over 40 years by auctioning global warming pollution permits, using great gobs of that money...
...would have taken a truly great floor debate to begin resolving some of those difficult areas - a half dozen thorny deal-breakers (how to contain costs, what to do about China) that need to be figured out before any such bill can pass. But not much of that table setting took place last week, because the debate never made it past the partisan bickering and economic fear mongering. Lieberman-Warner was strangled in its crib, because moderate Democrats weren't ready to go this far, because Boxer and the enviros weren't willing to compromise on their core issues...
Reid brought the bill to the floor despite the exquisitely bad timing because climate change is his top domestic priority and because the issue won't be any easier to debate when a gallon of gasoline costs $5 or $6. Barack Obama was busy clinching the nomination and didn't show up for the debate (neither, for that matter, did John McCain). So, for the first couple of days of the fiasco, as the Republicans deployed parliamentary delay tactics and trotted out bogus studies that "proved" the bill would wreck the economy, the story line seemed to be this: What...