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Fact Sheet: Fair Employment and U.S. Companies in Northern Ireland February 2001

The Ten Largest U.S. Employers in Northern Ireland Parent Company Protestant Catholic Percent Catholic Other/ Unknown TOTAL OSI Industries Inc. (private) 1,603 1,235 43.5 74 2,912 Caterpillar Inc. 1,518 490 24.4 51 2,059 Seagate Technology LLC (private) 516 1,174 69.5 88 1,778 AVX Corp. 770 252 24.7 55 1,077 Sara Lee Corp. 1 700 766 52.3 13 995 Nacco Industries Inc. 450 281 38.4 16 747 General Electric Co. 2 523 130 19.9 23 686 DuPont (EI) de Nemours & Co. 247 427 63.4 11 685 Price Waterhouse Coopers (private) 380 242 42.9 33 655 Visteon Corp. 261 232 47.1 41 534 1 Courtaulds Jersey, Courtaulds Textiles Holdings and Courtaulds Lingerie, which will close starting in Feb. 2001 and bring the total down to 760. 2 One minority-owned affiliate, Charles Hurst, and four wholly-owned subsidiaries—GE Capital Woodchester (NI) and three very small operations. Note: Any fair employment assessment must compare each company’s work force to a local catchments area. The Catholic and Protestant proportions of catchments areas vary throughout Northern Ireland. Number of publicly traded U.S. firms with more than 10 employees in Northern Ireland: 69, up from 50 in 1995. Total Northern Ireland employment at U.S. companies at the end of 2000: 20,012, up from 17,400 in 1999 and 16,350 in 1998—twice as many as the 10,200 employed when paramilitary groups declared ceasefires in 1994. Overall Catholic representation at U.S. companies in Northern Ireland at the end of 2000: 43.1 percent. Catholic representation in the overall Northern Ireland work force: 39.6 percent at employers monitored by the Equality Commission, according to 1999 data, the latest available—up 4.7 points from 1990. Estimated Catholic proportion of the economically active population: 42 percent, up from 40 percent in 1990. Unemployment differential: Catholics remain about twice as likely as Protestants to be unemployed. Catholic men are more than two times as likely to be unemployed as are Protestant men, and more likely to be unemployed throughout Northern Ireland, for longer periods. Number of U.S. employers with significant community under-representation: 21 (Catholics at 10, Protestants at 11). Number of discrimination complaints pending against U.S. firms at the Fair Employment Tribunal: 37 (as of 10/00). Number of Fair Employment Tribunal cases lost or settled by U.S. companies currently in Northern Ireland: 29. Number of companies now in Northern Ireland with agreements on implementing the MacBride principles: 46 (64 agreements have been reached altogether but some companies no longer have ties to Northern Ireland). Number of local U.S. laws and substantive resolutions on fair employment in Northern Ireland: at least 35. Number of U.S. states with Northern Ireland fair employment legislation: 17. Compiled by: Investor Responsibility Research Center, 1350 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 700, Washington, D.C. 20036-1701 Tel: 202/833-0700 - Fax: 202/833-3555 - Website: www.irrc.org - Email: nis@irrc.org