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Thus, barely a year later the Nestlé corporation was forced to stop using cocoa beans picked by child slave-labor in Africa. Moreover, the Swiss multinational pledged to buy their cocoa from peasant farmers at a fair price, provide increased healthcare and job security to its employees around the world, and use only biodegradable packaging. Soon the tactic was applied – with greater or lesser success -- to other multinationals from Coca-Cola and Nike to Monsanto and Shell. Everywhere workers, small farmers, ecologists and fair-traders mobilized in international alliances. Everywhere they demanded livable salaries and working conditions, shop-floor representation, elimination of industrial pollution that first cripples workers on the job before spreading out to contaminate the environment. | Thus, barely a year later the Nestlé corporation was forced to stop using cocoa beans picked by child slave-labor in Africa. Moreover, the Swiss multinational pledged to buy their cocoa from peasant farmers at a fair price, provide increased healthcare and job security to its employees around the world, and use only biodegradable packaging. Soon the tactic was applied – with greater or lesser success -- to other multinationals from Coca-Cola and Nike to Monsanto and Shell. Everywhere workers, small farmers, ecologists and fair-traders mobilized in international alliances. Everywhere they demanded livable salaries and working conditions, shop-floor representation, elimination of industrial pollution that first cripples workers on the job before spreading out to contaminate the environment. | ||
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