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How about a black list for TNCs?

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3 March, 2002The Financial Times' hit parade of well-respected transnational companies omits important criteria.

GENEVA: In his latest website opinion column, the IMF general secretary, Marcello Malentacchi, says that a list published every December by the Financial Times of the world's most respected transnational companies - many of which are in the metal sector - gives no credit at all to the workers who contribute so largely to making the companies successful.
Not all relevant factors are taken into account either. Malentacchi writes that "in order to bring justice to such a list, we should also ask TNCs about their social policy and their social behaviour."
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