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No, because each of them would have their own CSR. They would have acted
differently towards the charges of unethical conduct. The code of conduct outlines
the “primary standards” including nondiscrimination and freedom of collective
bargaining, as well as “preferential standards” that the university demands its
contracted vendors to uphold. The student coalition accused the soft drink company
of polluting groundwater in India with pesticides and promoting unsafe working
conditions and interfering with labor unions in Colombia.
3. Do you think the university would have developed the vendor code of conduct
without the aggressive campaign put forward by SOLE?
The aggressive campaign put forward by SOLE certainly put the code of conduct
initiative into motion. The university probably would not have had as through or as
high standard as pushed for by SOLE.