Cummins

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Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Cummins has not publicly terminated any business relationships due to religious or political beliefs. However, the company does not protect against viewpoint discrimination and uses its corporate voice to loudly advocate for leftist beliefs and policies, such as the Equality Act. Cummins has also denounced legislation like North Carolina's 2015 bathroom bill. Cummins does not use corporate funds in a discriminatory or activist manner. For these reasons, Cummins receives a "Medium Risk" rating.

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Corporate Weaponization
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Has denied service to customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

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Cummins has not publicly terminated business relationships due to religious beliefs or political views. The company received a score of 100 on the Corporate Equality Index from the Human Rights Campaign. Among other requirements, this means Cummins has pledged to vet vendors based on LGBTQ policies (1). 

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Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

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The Cummins Foundation primarily only supports organizations in Massachusetts counties and “generally does not consider requests for religious endeavors,” in addition to numerous other eligibility restrictions (1). Cummins no longer matches employee donations (2). It does not unilaterally restrict religious organizations.

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Employment policies fail to protect against discrimination based on political affiliation/views and/or religion.

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Cummins does not protect its employees against viewpoint discrimination (1).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy
Criteria

Uses corporate reputation to support ideological causes and/or organizations hostile to freedom of expression.

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Cummins is an advocate for the Equality Act and a coalition partner for America Competes (1)(2). Cummins spoke out against the North Carolina legislation, HB 2, which required people to use the bathroom of their biological gender (3). Cummins also talked about voting rights for “Black and brown citizens” and making sure that “voting is accessible to all people in our country” (4). Cummins criticized the Indiana abortion ban, making clear their stance on the divisive issue (5).

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Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

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Cummins has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression (1)(2).

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Uses corporate political contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

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Cummins has not used its PAC donations for ideological purposes hostile to freedom of expression  (1)(2).

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December 30, 2022

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