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Both opponents and supporters of the corporate responsibility initiative (Kovi) leave a little stone unturned so that they can animate the next vote on Sunday. The former also go to court for this.
Commodities company Glencore tried to have a court bar the initiator from reporting alleged child labor at a Glencore mine in Bolivia. On Monday, he filed a lawsuit with the Zug High Court for unfair competition and violation of personal rights, and made a request for a super-provisional, with which the publicity of the vote must stop immediately.
The court weighs
The court now rejected this request. As justification, the court writes, among other things, that it is already too late to prevent a wide audience from learning about the allegations. Furthermore, since January this year at the latest, the initiators have been voicing serious and “quite controversial” allegations against Glencore. Therefore, for the court, an immediate publicity stop is not provided.
Glencore had demanded that the initiators remove what they believed to be false information from their website and no longer distribute it. The Kovi Committee also recently sent a call for donations to households where Glencore is being ridiculed by the mine in Bolivia.
With the child labor charge, the initiators have gone too far, says a Glencore spokeswoman for the “Luzerner Zeitung.” Steps had to be taken to protect employees and the reputation of the company. In addition to the lawsuit, the company has also placed full-page advertisements in newspapers in which the company accuses the initiators of spreading false information.
The young liberals also complained
Other opponents of the corporate responsibility initiative have also tried to ban the publicity of the vote by the yes camp through the courts. In several cantons, young libertarians have filed complaints against the churches’ commitment to the initiative. However, they are also canceled. The Supreme Federal Court has rejected the demand to stop voting on advertising with immediate effect.
It is not without a certain irony that of all the people now going to court and warning of a wave of lawsuits in Switzerland, they write in a message to the Kovi initiators. It also refers to a late-breaking campaign by the Swissholdings association, of which Glencore is a member. The slogan used to announce a no: “Lawyers don’t make the world a better place.” (lha)
