Companies that have signed the United Nations Global Compact are expected to align their operations and strategies with ten universally-accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment, and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary driver of globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology, and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere. 

“We are very proud of Graebel’s CSR program and activities,” said Bill Graebel, Chief Executive Officer.  “We determined that the UN Global Compact is an ideal initiative to unify our worldwide support for progressive human rights, labour, environmental and anti-corruption actions. In the area of human rights and labour we have identified being the ‘Employer of Choice’ as one of our critical company objectives. Further, as we have expanded globally we have updated many of the company’s and supply chain policies and procedures to meet and exceed local requirements and to aggressively support our commitment to fair labour practices, freedom of association and to abolish child labour. We will use our ISO 14001 environmental program to support the UN Global Compact environment principles. Over the last years we have strengthened our anti bribery programs and have conducted internal and external training.  Graebel has many robust programs in place and will use the UN Global Compact annual ‘Communication on Progress’ to document these programs, identify areas for improvement and to establish metrics to measure our results”.