Two Sides of the Same Coin

By Michael Walsh interviews Linda Rubenstein and Chris Walton

The ACTU has embraced the new language of corporate social responsibility in its quest to support good old-fashioned workers' rights. Will they collaborate or agitate?

They discuss the balance of market forces and basic worker rights and the role the ACTU sees for itself in ensuring or achieving greater corporate social responsibility. Up for discussion are the old perennial of the environment versus jobs and sustainable development and sustainable employment.

(Ethical Investor, issue 26, September 2003)