The Taskforce on Churches and Corporate Responsibility
Organization profile published 1982

Year Published:  1982
Resource Type:  Organization
Cx Number:  CX2483

Abstract: 
The Taskforce on Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR), which includes representatives of the major Canadian churches, concerns itself with issues related to corporate social resposibility in Southern Africa, Asia and Canada, as well as Latin America. Taskforce members have commited themselves to respond to the needs of sister churches working with disadvanted groups, whenever the decisions of Canadian banks or corporations appear to have adverse effects on people who have no power to influence those decisions themselves.
In 1981, Taskforce representatives, for instance, met with senior INCO management to discuss the intensified terror in Guatemala and the company's investment there. They felt that, while the nickel operation is "mothballed", INCO might well cosider its reponse to the state-inspired violence.
Church officials suggested that it was appropriate for a Canadian company to distance itself publicly from the Guatemalan regime. INCO responded that it would be quite unrealistic to think that anyone could change the Guatemalan situation. (Subsequent to this meeting, INCO completely shut down its operation).
(The above is excerpted from Issue 25 - Division of Mission - United Church of Canada.)

This abstract was published in the Connexions Digest in 1982.
See also CX922, CX2901.