"I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony."
Steve Salbu
Atlanta, GA
On Tue Aug 31st, 2010 3:27 PM CDT Rick Kunkel wrote:
>No, selling beer would not be unethical. After all, as Benjamin Franklin is
>frequently quoted to have said:
>
>³Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.²
>
>Thus, it could hardly be considered unethical.
>
>Rick
>
>
>On 8/31/10 11:30 AM, "Virginia G Maurer"
><[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Alas, one must admit that even Diet Coke is not good for you.
>>
>> But, Dan, does the reasoning apply to beer and alcohol? Are they unethical,
>> too? Should one feel bad about working in a grocery store that sells Coke [in
>> the South it is just "Coke", even if it is a Pepsi, but never "soda" or "pop",
>> much less "sodapop" -- except for the Yankee tourists] and beer?
>>
>> Tell me it is not so.
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk on behalf of Daniel
>> Warner
>> Sent: Tue 8/31/2010 12:21 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Coca Cola as ethics case in class?
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Well, a person could make a pretty good argument that the manufacturing,
>> distribution, and sale of Coca-Cola is itself unethical, just like cigarettes.
>> The only thing to be said in favor of soda pop is that the business employs a
>> lot of people, just as that's the only thing to be said in favor of
>> cigarettes.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Dan Warner
>>
>>
>> Prof. Daniel M. Warner
>> Dept. of Accounting (Business Legal Studies)
>> MS 9071, Parks Hall 401
>> Western Washington University
>> 516 High St.
>> Bellingham, WA 98225
>> 360 650-3390
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Academy of Legal Studies in Business (ALSB) Talk
>> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marsha Hass [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 1:50 PM
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>> Subject: use as ethics in class?
>>
>> Coke Cancels Health Insurance of Striking Workers; Workers Bring ERISA Suit
>>
>> [http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0133f36b28f8970b-120wi]
>> <http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341bfae553ef0133f36b28f8970b-pi>
>> About 500 Coca-Cola employees went on strike last Monday over charges of
>> employee surveillance, intimidation, and bad faith bargaining. A day later,
>> Coke responded by cutting off the strikers' health care coverage. Coke's
>> rationale, I assume, is that "benefits, like salary, are what you get for
>> working, and if you're not working, we don't have to pay you." The strikers,
>> however, are calling foul:
>>
>> "My wife had a kidney transplant two years ago. When Coke cancelled our health
>> care, they cut off her anti-rejection medication. This shows me that Coke
>> doesn't care about its employees," said Bill Mauhl, a 34-year Coke employee,
>> who works in the company's production facility in Bellevue.
>>
>> Five of the strikers have filed a class-action ERISA suit against Coke.
>>
>> Readers are invited to weigh in with comments.
>>
>> Hat tip: Carol Furnish. For more, see
>> Law.com<http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2010/08/striking-co
>> ke-workers-sue-over-health-insurance-cancellation.html> and the Teamsters
>> press
>> release<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/employees-file-suit-against-co
>> ke-for-cancelling-their-health-care-101715938.html>.
>>
>> rb
>>
>> August 30, 2010 in Labor and Employment
>> News<http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/labor_and_employment_news
>> />, Labor Law<http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/labor_law/>,
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