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Dow Chemical/Union Carbide - Rejecting liability of Bhopal Disaster Dow Chemical already had a sinister reputation before they acquired Union Carbid e, in 2001. Dow Chemical put a lot of money into its development and manufacturi ng of napalm for the U.S. military, a chemical which was infamous in the Vietnam War for giving people horrific burns and damaging a generation of unborn babies . Union Carbide, though, is directly responsible for the deaths of around 8,000 In dian people in December 1984, and the birth defects that followed. The Bhopal di saster occurred when a pesticide factory in Bhopal, India, owned and operated by Union Carbide Corporation, leaked large and deadly amounts of Methyl isocyanate , a highly poisonous gas. So many people were affected because the workers at th e plant were so poor that their families set up homes outside the factory gates. Union Carbide offered $350 million in compensation, the Government of India said that the damages cost $3.3 billion; the Government, in the end, had to settle f or $470 million. Throughout the years, UCC have had to fund hospitals and respon se centers after being nagged by officials, but many still say that what UCC hav e donated is negligible when compared to the human cost of the disaster. Dow Chemical, who are the wealthier new owners of Union Carbide, have yet to mak e significant reparations to the people of Bhopal. 2. Walmart s Lack of Compassion This story describes the unethical treatment of its workers, because of the shee r senselessness of it. In 2000, a collision with a semi-trailer left 52-year-old Deborah Shank with per manent brain damage and in a wheelchair. Her husband and three sons were fortuna te for a $700,000 accident settlement from the trucking company. After legal cos ts and other expenses, the remaining $417,000 was put in a special trust to care for Mrs. Shank. However, six years later the providers of Mrs. Shank s health plan, Wal-Mart, sued the Shanks for the $470,000 it had spent on her medical care. Wal-Mart was fully entitled to the money; in the fine print of Mrs. Shank s employme nt contract it said that money won in damages after an accident belonged