Texas Instruments

Texas
Semiconductors and Semiconductor Equipment

Risk Level:

Rating - Caution
Medium Risk

Summary:

Texas Instruments has not publicly terminated any relationships due to views or beliefs. However, TI does support the Equality Act while prohibiting PAC donations to Republican election objectors. It also lacks viewpoint protections for its employees, despite its pledge to vet vendors for LGBTQ policies. For these reasons, Texas Instruments 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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Texas Instruments 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 Texas Instruments 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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Texas Instruments focuses its charitable giving on education, disaster relief, and arts & cultural institutions. It does not discriminate against faith-based schools or charitable groups through its giving (1).

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

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Texas Instruments does not protect its employees from viewpoint discrimination (1).

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

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Texas Instruments has signed an open letter supporting the Equality Act (1). Texas Instruments also opposed the North Carolina biological bathroom law in 2017 (2).

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

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Texas Instruments has contributed $1 million to the Black Lives Matter organization and related causes (1)(2)(3).

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

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Texas Instruments does not donate to ideological PACs(1)(2). However, it has a ban against donating to the GOP(3)(4)(5).

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March 30, 2023

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