| CAFCA views, analyses, research The Roger AwardThe Roger Award For The Worst Transnational Corporation operating in New Zealand has run annually since 1997. There are no prizes for guessing whom it is named after. It is organised by CAFCA and GATT Watchdog, both Christchurch-based groups. The judges have awarded prizes for runners up, continuity and collaborators. The Award has attracted considerable interest since its inception (even from the corporate media), and has had a succession of distinguished and completely voluntary judges. The events to announce the winners have become highly memorable in their own right. New The finalists for the 2011 Roger Award have now been named and can be seen here. The judges for 2011 are: Joce Jesson, a Senior Lecturer in Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland, and a community activist; Paul Corliss, from Christchurch, an organiser with the Tertiary Education Union and a life member of the Rail and Maritime Transport Union; Paul Maunder, cultural worker, curator of Blackball Museum of Working Class History and a founding member of Unite!; Sam Mahon, an artist, author and activist from North Canterbury; and Wayne Hope, Associate Professor, Communications Studies, Auckland University of Technology. The winner(s) will be announced at a Christchurch event in early 2012. For the record, the nomination form with details of the criteria and how to make a nomination is available in Word or PDF format. Criteria are below. Nominations closed on 31 October 2011. The winners of the 2010 Roger Award were announced at an Auckland event on 4 April 2011. The winner of the 2010 Roger Award was Warner Brothers, with Imperial Tobacco and rest home operator BUPA runners up. "Imperial Tobacco and BUPA are unlovely companies in their own ways, but neither of them, unlike the winner of the 2010 Roger Award, has so far been able to wield such a ring of power over the New Zealand government that it has had legislation rewritten in its favour," said the Judges' Statement. John Key and his Government won the Accomplice Award for “their sycophantic grovelling to Warner Bros, and their bending over backwards to facilitate their exploitation of New Zealand workers and taxpayers”. A background to the Roger Award was given at the event by Murray Horton, CAFCA secretary/organiser. There is some media coverage including video at http://cafcatour.blogspot.com/p/tour-media-coverage.html. Criteria and details of previous winners are below. The winners of all awards since its inauguration in 1997 are:
Details of winners and judges' decisions since 2000 are below. The criteria for judging are by assessing the transnational (a corporation with 25% or more foreign ownership) that has the most negative impact in each or all of the following categories: Economic Dominance - Monopoly, profiteering, tax dodging, cultural imperialism People - Unemployment, impact on tangata whenua, impact on women, impact on children, abuse of workers/conditions, health and safety of workers and the public Environment - Environmental damage, abuse of animals Political interference - Interference in democratic processes, running an ideological crusade There is also an Accomplice Award for an organisation (not an individual) which was the worst Accomplice during the year in aiding and abetting transnational corporations in New Zealand to behave as described in the criteria. The Accomplice’s award is in addition to the Worst Transnational Corporation award and will not necessarily be awarded every year. You may nominate for either or both awards. Reports on previous winners2010 AwardThe 2010 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, report and financial analysis of the winner (a 254 KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2009 AwardThe 2009 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, report and financial analysis of the winner (a 765 KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2008 AwardThe 2008 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, report and financial analysis of the winner (a 696KB PDF – Acrobat – file). There is also a presentation by ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) [note that this presentation is large - a 1.22MB PDF] 2007 AwardThe 2007 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, report and financial analysis of the winner (a 261KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2006 AwardThe 2006 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, report and financial analysis of the winner (a 152KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2005 AwardThe 2005 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement, Roger Report, and Financial Analysis of the winners (a 214KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2004 AwardThe 2004 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement and Report, and financial analysis of Telecom (a 167KB PDF – Acrobat – file). 2003 AwardThe 2003 winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement and Report (a 54KB PDF – Acrobat – file), which for the first time provides a financial report on the winner. 2002 AwardThe 2002 award winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement (for a summary) and the Judges’ Report (a 118KB PDF – Acrobat – file) for a detailed backgrounder. Because Tranz Rail won three times, it was installed as the first occupant of the Hall of Shame. It thus became ineligible to be nominated again for the Roger Award. 2001 AwardThe 2001 award winners are detailed in the Judges’ Statement (for a summary) and the Judges’ Report (a 308KB PDF – Acrobat – file) for a detailed backgrounder. 2000 AwardThe 2000 Roger Award for the worst Transnational operating in Aotearoa/New Zealand – Judges’ Report . (A 58KB PDF – Acrobat – file.) |
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