Roger Award for 2007 Open
The Roger Award for the Worst Transnational of 2007 has now opened for nominations. The award is organised by the Campaign Against Foreign COntrol of Aotearoa and you can nominate your least favourite multinational here. Last years winner was Progressive Enterprises.
The judges for 2007 are: Laila Harre, from Auckland, National Secretary of the National Distribution Union and former Cabinet Minister; Anton Oliver, from Otago, All Black and environmentalist; Geoff Bertram, from Wellington, a Victoria University economist; Brian Turner, from Christchurch, President-Elect of the Methodist Church and social justice activist; Paul Corliss, from Christchurch, a life member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union; and Cee Payne-Harker, from Dunedin, Industrial Services Manager for the NZ Nurses’ Organisation and health issues activist. They will be given a shortlist of finalists. The winner(s) will be announced in early 2008 at an event in Christchurch.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:39 am
Its a pity there aren’t categories for worst New Zealand corporation and worst government agency. There are plenty that give the transnationals a run for their money.
Im surprised Mitsubishi trucks never got a dishonourable mention for its failure to recall dangerous trucks and buses till they were ordered to by the government.
June 27th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
with that hit on that corporate “Unprogressive Enterprises” dudes
it sort of goes nowhere, you should remember the name the Roger award.
We all understand what Roger was and stood for,
for best results it is good to associate the bad things about corporation greed is to associate with an exact person, like she missed killing people by share good luck, to Teresa K Gattung Telecom privatised s**t, people can identify their anger,
June 28th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
pq,
your slip is showing, you forgot to post in a lisp…
wow, does this mean you actually care about what you just said?
cynically, katie
June 28th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Yep, Regressive Enterprises certainly deserved it last year.
If they were a TNC and not a SOE, Solid Energy would have to win hands down this year. But I guess a SOE can’t qualify, even if it behaves like a TNC.
BTW, which Roger are the awards named after - Douglas, Kerr, or Bhatnagar? Because we got rogered by all three of them
June 28th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Do you have a”best” company award as well? While the “baddies” should of course be criticised, isn’t it a bit negative to ONLY focus on the negative?
Or maybe I am wrong and there IS a positive side to the award as well?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
it’s not organised by us, it’s organised by another org. Suggest alternative awards to them.
BTW, the previous winners of the award are:
# Progressive Enterprises (2006)
# Bank of New Zealand and Westpac (2005)
# Telecom (2004)
# Juken Nissho (2003)
# Tranz Rail (2002)
# Carter Holt Harvey (2001)
# Tranz Rail (2000)
# TransAlta (1999)
# Monsanto (1998)
# Tranz Rail (1997)
June 28th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
katie the idea of being in public is to show my slip,
all of yous green vote NAT,
organise,
yopu have 5%,
yous are so poweerful but yous dont see past next wek,
June 29th, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Kevyn - Mitsubishi were are finalist for the 2002 awards. If you have some more recent info why not send in a nomination? The point of the Roger is to highlight the impact of transnational corporations in NZ. If someone else wanted to create and organise an award that Solid Energy might win, the Roger organisers have said they would not mind.
Toad - AFAIK the award is named after three - Douglas, Kerr and Stan Roger. Last year the award invoved another dastardly Roger - Roger Corbett (Woolworths Australia).