Wards Cove Packing Co.

"Wards Cove Packing Co. v. Atonio" By: Jennifer Ruddell AIU December 10, 2004 Do you feel the current hiring practices are discriminatory? Why or why not? What policies should be adopted? Yes I do feel the hiring practices are discriminatory because the workers were being hired through a hiring hall agreement with a predominately Filipino union. If anyone was being racist it would be the union. Since the workers are local to the canneries, it is the …showed first 75 words of 370 total…

…showed last 75 words of 370 total…previously? Is it acceptable even if the noncannery workers are predominantly white? No it is not an acceptable practice for the cannery to rehire skilled noncannery workers just because they are predominately white. This is as racist and prejudice as if they never hired anyone except people of the white race. They should advertise and hire due to experience and not race. Reference: Beauchamp, Tom L.; Bowie, Norman E. (2004) Ethical Theory and Business Seventh Edition