Responsabilidad Social empresarial: un ámbito de necesaria intervención sindical

Abstract

Overcoming or surmounting attempts to reduce Corporate Social Responsibility to a marketing activity, CSR is now a global governance instrument for compliance with social and environmental standards. Enforcement and verification of compliance to commitments from corporations is essential, whether as a result of International Framework Agreements with International Union Federations or from codes of conduct assumed unilaterally or treated, simply, as affirmations of good conduct in corporate memorandums. Another transparent requirement would be to make public lists available of the branches, suppliers and contractors that make up the production and distribution chains of multinationals, such as the results of audits and other methods of verification. From these considerations, this article formulates the need for stakeholder and union intervention and sharing experiences of the Textile-Leather and Chemical Federation of Industries and related Labour Commissions. In this current crisis, one of the causes of which is "irresponsibility" in major corporate sectors, the aim of Corporate Social Responsibility, with no solution to this serious situation, should be to acquire a greater meaning.