Salt & Straw
Corporate Bias Rating
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Salt & Straw is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. Salt & Straw occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Salt & Straw has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (1).
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Salt & Straw does not appear to discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1).
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Salt & Straw requires its employees to take racial bias training (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its leadership composition. From its areas of focus: “30% of our leadership team identifies as LGBTQIA+, 2% of our team identifies as nonbinary, 53% of our team identifies as BIPOC, 40% of our managers identify as BIPOC” (2). The company does does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (3)(4).
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Salt & Straw supports DEI within its business practices. From its diversity and Inclusion page: “Salt & Straw’s areas of focus include “creating a diverse workplace- including board & leadership teams, using purchasing power to support BIPOC & LGBTIQ+ owned businesses (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using its reputation to advance ideological causes or policies (2).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
Salt & Straw funds the Tevor Project, the Lambert House, Basic Rights Oregon, TJI Justice Project, Lotus Shelter, BLMP-BLack LGBTQIA+ Migrant Project, The Okra Project, the San Diego Center, Color of Change (1). Otherwise, there are no publicly known cases of the company using corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (2).
Board Bias
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1792 Exchange has not yet compiled data about the board of directors or political contributions of leadership for this company.