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MacBride Principles
About: MacBride Principles is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9 publications have been published within this topic receiving 50 citations.
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15 Mar 2010
TL;DR: McNamara et al. as mentioned in this paper mapped out the evolution of the McBride Campaign using interviews with key personalities involved and hitherto unpublished and inaccessible archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, and papers obtained using the Freedom of Information Acts of the United States the United Kingdom.
Abstract: Published in November 1984, The MacBride Principles contained nine affirmative action proposals aimed at eliminating religious discrimination in the employment practices of United States corporations with subsidiaries in Northern Ireland. The weapon used by the MacBride campaigners was the federal constitution of the United States. States and cities in the Union could pass their own corporate legislation incorporating the MacBride Principles and use their pension fund investments to table shareholder resolutions seeking the Principles inclusion in employment policies. Later developments saw their application to US and foreign firms supplying goods and services to states and cities. Using devolved legislation, the MacBride Campaign broke the stranglehold on the discussion of Irish issues maintained by the US, UK and Irish governments in the Congress. It was debated in state legislatures and city councils. Irish-America was motivated to participate in a nonviolent campaign to achieve social justice in Northern Ireland. Supported by the United States government, there was a fierce reaction by the British government to the Principles. Its attempts to suppress them were unsuccessful. Using interviews with key personalities involved and hitherto unpublished and inaccessible archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin, and papers obtained using the Freedom of Information Acts of the United States the United Kingdom, the evolution of the McBride Campaign is mapped out in full by Kevin McNamara, who brings particular insight through is role as a British Member of Parliament and former Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
36 citations
Journal Article•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the promotion of international respect for worker rights through codes of conduct for U.S. businesses operating abroad, including the Sullivan and MacBride principles.
Abstract: This Article explores the promotion of international respect for worker rights through codes of conduct for U.S. businesses operating abroad. The emphasis is on codes of conduct that have been expressly developed to apply to U.S. corporations or their suppliers. Therefore, codes developed by international organizations to deal with labor practices of multinational corporations, without regard to the country of origin of the corporation, are beyond the scope of this article. Part I of the Article describes several codes of conduct promoting fair labor standards that apply to U.S. businesses operating abroad. Part II outlines administrative and legislative efforts designed to encourage U.S. companies to adhere to such codes. Part III discusses the extent to which the codes have contributed to the promotion of international respect for worker rights; the emphasis is on the Sullivan and MacBride Principles because these two sets of principles have been in existence for relatively long periods of time, and therefore it is possible to make some inferences about their effectiveness in promoting worker rights abroad. The Article presents some tentative conclusions regarding the feasibility of using codes of conduct to promote international respect for worker rights.
11 citations
TL;DR: In this article, experience with the Sullivan and MacBride Principles is analyzed to serve as the basis to predict corporate response to the Valdez Principles, and alternative strategies that firms may adopt to cope with this new code.
Abstract: The Valdez Principles is the latest of a series of voluntary codes of conduct that have been enunciated by various advocacy groups to guide the behavior of business enterprises. These principles provide guidelines on corporate conduct towards the environment and present a corporation with critical choices. This study suggests alternative strategies that firms may adopt to cope with this new code. Experience with the Sullivan and MacBride Principles is analyzed to serve as the basis to predict corporate response to the Valdez Principles.
3 citations
1 Nov 2007
TL;DR: In the early 1980s, several attempts at legislative action were made by members of the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs, supported by the Irish National Caucus, and they failed because successive speakers of the House and leaders of the Senate controlled the business on the floor of each House and they saw to it that no progress was made on the bills as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Since the early nineteenth century Irish-Americans have sought to persuade the White House and Congress to intervene in the politics of Ireland and, after Partition, Northern Ireland. On all occasions they were singularly unsuccessful. There were three reasons for this failure. First, the White House claimed not to intervene in the internal affairs of another sovereign country, a principle of international relations often honoured more in the breach than in the observance by successive US governments. In the case of the United Kingdom, however, it was invariably honoured. In the nineteenth century and until the outbreak of the Second World War, the British Empire was the largest in the world and, following the Second World War, Britain with its ‘special relationship’ was the United States' most important NATO ally. When questioned about Northern Ireland, the White House religiously echoed the refrain of ‘non-interference in the internal affairs in another country’ and generally supported British policy in Ireland and, later, in Northern Ireland. The second reason was that initiatives taken in Congress, mainly in the House of Representatives, were unsuccessful. In the early 1980s several attempts at legislative action were made by members of the Ad Hoc Congressional Committee for Irish Affairs, supported by the Irish National Caucus. They failed because successive speakers of the House and leaders of the Senate controlled the business on the floor of each House and they saw to it that no progress was made on the bills.
2 citations
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