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Pensions press releases
Occupational pension funds of ordinary British working people are worth more than £870 billion. Most of them are invested in shares on the stock exchange. The shares held on your behalf are often kept in multinational corporations, whose labour practices sometimes undermine attempts to eradicate world poverty.
We are campaining to work together and put pressure on multinational corporations to improve their labour standards. Multinationals have to respond to their shareholders, but the pension funds will only act if we tell them that we want them to.
For more information on our Invest in Freedom campaign click here.
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- Pension funds are not investing responsibly, says new report 15 July 2002 A new report shows that most UK pension funds are not investing responsibly.
- War on Want and CWU target Post Office pension fund 27 June 2002 Workers in the Third World could reap the benefits of pension funds worth £44bn if trustees make a commitment to socially responsible investment.
- Launch of cutting-edge toolkit for trustees and fund managers 9 July 2002 A new toolkit for pension fund trustees and fund managers has been launched to provide advice on how to improve the impact of pension fund investment on people in the poorest countries in the world.
- Pension funds are key battleground in campaign for global workers’ rights 13 December 2001 Around the world 250 million children under the age of 14 are working, often in sweatshop conditions and earning poverty wages. An additional 200 million children are working in forced labour conditions.
