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Talk about a biased fluff piece. There are a LOT of critics of the ARC. I know one instance where at an emergency levy, they served hot coffee to the men, free of charge...until the cameras left, then they charged the guys. More recently, in Haiti, they said they were going to build homes, accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and have built 6 homes. Meanwhile the president gets a salary of $500,000 plus no doubt all sorts of fringe benefits. by way of contrast, the president of the USA makes $400,000 plus expense accounts of 169k (for travel, entertaining, and misc duty related expenses). I see nothing about their being significant criticism of the organization because of Haiti. Why not? I also don't understand why the criminal negligence they have committed is minimized as a "controversy" rather than clear evidence that it is a corrupt, bureaucratic organization more concerned with good pr than good works. Abitslow ( talk) 11:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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there is no mention of the fact that much of their workforce has unionized due to poor working conditions and a lack of benefits. See Teamster.org red cross national contract 2600:1004:B055:3B3D:0:1B:35C9:C301 ( talk) 19:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
If you look through the article history in 2022, it was vandalized quite frequently all year. Unfortunately, it looks like no editors are monitoring this article regularly, so a lot of bad stuff is getting through.
For example, the books currently linked through image boxes in the article appear to be non-sequiturs which have nothing to do with the American Red Cross. They were added in these edits on 22 July 2022 and 24 July 2022. And that's just the most obvious damage.
I have neither the time nor interest to clean up any other damage lurking in the article. It may be safer to pull this back to a last good version in May or June 2022. Any objections? Coolcaesar ( talk) 15:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
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Talk about a biased fluff piece. There are a LOT of critics of the ARC. I know one instance where at an emergency levy, they served hot coffee to the men, free of charge...until the cameras left, then they charged the guys. More recently, in Haiti, they said they were going to build homes, accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and have built 6 homes. Meanwhile the president gets a salary of $500,000 plus no doubt all sorts of fringe benefits. by way of contrast, the president of the USA makes $400,000 plus expense accounts of 169k (for travel, entertaining, and misc duty related expenses). I see nothing about their being significant criticism of the organization because of Haiti. Why not? I also don't understand why the criminal negligence they have committed is minimized as a "controversy" rather than clear evidence that it is a corrupt, bureaucratic organization more concerned with good pr than good works. Abitslow ( talk) 11:19, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
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Meters (
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21:35, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 16 January 2023 and 8 May 2023. Further details are available
on the course page. Student editor(s):
PHKJIU (
article contribs).
— Assignment last updated by PHKJIU ( talk) 19:58, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
there is no mention of the fact that much of their workforce has unionized due to poor working conditions and a lack of benefits. See Teamster.org red cross national contract 2600:1004:B055:3B3D:0:1B:35C9:C301 ( talk) 19:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
If you look through the article history in 2022, it was vandalized quite frequently all year. Unfortunately, it looks like no editors are monitoring this article regularly, so a lot of bad stuff is getting through.
For example, the books currently linked through image boxes in the article appear to be non-sequiturs which have nothing to do with the American Red Cross. They were added in these edits on 22 July 2022 and 24 July 2022. And that's just the most obvious damage.
I have neither the time nor interest to clean up any other damage lurking in the article. It may be safer to pull this back to a last good version in May or June 2022. Any objections? Coolcaesar ( talk) 15:31, 16 September 2023 (UTC)