Mercy Investments Update
December 8, 2014
Report from Pat Zerega, Senior Director of Shareholder Advocacy, Mercy Investment Services, Inc.
Mercy Investment Services has been busy concluding one shareholder season and preparing for the next. We are pleased that MGM grand has developed a human rights policy to include child sex trafficking. Other work this year has focused on the merger of several airlines. US Air has merged with American, United with Continental and Delta is still working out its merger with Northwest. These mergers mean that policies need to be rewritten and as some of the airlines have told us renegotiated with the unions. We are pleased that all groups now have a human rights policy for the new entity.
The truck company work continues with Mercy adding new companies to focus on throughout this year. Our work in this area has been enhanced with the relationship with Truckers against Traffickinghttp://www.truckersagainsttrafficking.org/ a group providing training and resources for independent truckers and truck firms. Many of the resources are free to print from the website.
Lastly we have continued to expand the trafficking work beyond the child sexual exploitation to include labor trafficking. Our partners at ICCR have developed a “No Fees Initiative” and have developed this resource for companies to work with addressing modern day slavery in their supply chain
