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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:23 AM
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A company that treats workers the right way:
Owner of ( my favorite soap) company is interviewed:

"Last year, every one of our fifteen workers got from six to twenty-two thousand dollars as a profit-sharing bonus. They all have optical and dental as well as medical coverage, and a pension plan. Four times a year, we have safety meetings, which can be boring, but afterward we take all of our employees and their spouses, sweethearts, and kids out for a big party. We'll have an eight-hundred-dollar bill. But they looked on Dr. Bronner, my father, as a sort of father, too. We are all one family, and we try to carry on what he started.
Reporters can't believe 2 million bottles are packed by hand, but you saw it. Four to five people, not working fast, pack them with no machines. Corporate America wants us to believe that you have to have machinery and pollution if you want products; that we can't make money if we share profits with workers. We are proving them wrong and loving it. The business is still run out of a California bedroom that Dad converted into an office. The two secretaries can look out the window and see our cats and orange trees."

The Story Behind Dr. Bronner's Soap
An Interview With Ralph Bronner
by Gail Grenier Sweet

http://web.archive.org/web/20010508090128/http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bronner.html
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:30 AM
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1. There are still some good and honorable companies left that realize
how important it is to value your employees. They are run by folks who are not greedy, hypocrites who contribute to repukes.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:35 AM
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2. I've been using their soap since 1975
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:37 AM
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3. DILUTE! DILUTE! OK!
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HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:38 AM
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4. Another encouraging tale of business laced with ethical behavior.
Thanks for that.
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uncommon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:38 AM
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5. It's the ABC!!!
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meowomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:44 AM
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6. Ben and Jerry's!
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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 10:49 AM
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7. Too bad a lot of us can't afford a four dollar bar of soap.
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-03-10 11:10 AM
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8. I can buy it for 2.83 a bar.
As long as I keep it dry between uses, a bar lasts for months.
Excellent value and important for allergy sensitive people.

check amazon....different ingredients in the soaps have different prices but the basic soap is2.83 a bar,
free shipping on orders over 25.00.
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 09:45 AM
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10. It lasts WAY longer than the major advertised brands (P&G, Unilever, etc.)
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-10 09:43 AM
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9. I love that stuff - but keep the peppermint oil AWAY from the naughty bits!
OOOOOUUUUUUUCCCCHHHHH!!!!!

We've been using it for over 20 years. The almond is the safest for in the shower.

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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-09-10 09:06 PM
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11. ..
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