Corporate Governance

Board accountability, shareholder rights, and voting access.

41 campaigns on this issue

• As You Sow (As You Vote) at All portfolio companies covered by the guidelines
  As You Sow · All portfolio companies covered by the guidelines · 2026 · A standing voting policy rather than a single engagement, so it has no vote or outcome of its own. The guidelines are offered as rules-based automated votes on the Broadridge Proxy Edge, iconik and Tumelo platforms, and to individual investors on iconik.
• New York State Common Retirement Fund (Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli) at Uber
  Office of the New York State Comptroller and the New York State Common Retirement Fund · Uber · 2026 · Filed January 22, 2026 and never put to a vote. Uber's proxy statement of March 23, 2026 carried four items of business, all of them management's, and the 8-K reporting the May 4, 2026 annual meeting lists the same four, so the proposal was off the ballot before the proxy was printed. Which way it left the ballot, withdrawn after an agreement or excluded, is not established by any source reviewed.
• Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  Missionary Association of Mary Immaculate · JPMorgan Chase · 2026 · Voted on as Proposal 6 at the annual meeting of 19 May 2026 and not approved: 254,439,951 votes for (13.20%), 1,646,771,508 against (85.41%), 26,916,849 abstaining (1.39%) and 356,294,369 broker non-votes. Support has fallen across the decade at this company: a 2023 proposal on the congruence of political and electioneering expenditures drew 31.61%, and American Banker reports that roughly the same proposal drew 29.5% in 2021.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on tying executive pay to child safety, 2026
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2026 · Proposal Ten at the annual meeting of 27 May 2026, not approved: 169,180,929 votes for, 4,776,963,503 against, 22,532,654 abstentions and 212,856,564 broker non-votes.
• Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at Lockheed Martin
  Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia · Lockheed Martin · 2025 · Not approved at the 9 May 2025 annual meeting: 15,949,706 votes for, 146,087,030 against, 4,113,455 abstentions and 36,684,562 broker non-votes, as certified in Lockheed Martin's Item 5.07 Form 8-K.
• Center for Political Accountability model proposal filers at 28 U.S. companies
  Center for Political Accountability model proposal filers · Charter Communications, Stryker Corporation, Teradyne · 2025 · 13 went to a vote with average support of 41.6 percent, five won majorities, and seven companies adopted policies in exchange for withdrawal
• John Chevedden at Spirit AeroSystems, Meritage Homes, CBOE, Crown Holdings, Teradyne
  John Chevedden · Cboe Global Markets, Teradyne · 2025 · Approved at three of the five and rejected at one. Meritage Homes approved it, 35,405,399 for to 25,771,870 against; Cboe Global Markets approved it, 45,950,093 to 35,947,178; Crown Holdings approved it, 54,193,891 to 48,704,745. Spirit AeroSystems recorded 37,298,726 for to 33,493,179 against and its filing does not say whether it passed. Teradyne certified the proposal as not approved, although 66,138,549 votes were cast for it and 63,581,675 against.
• Inspire Investing, LLC at Apple Inc.
  Inspire Investing · Apple Inc. · 2025 · Voted on at the annual meeting of 25 February 2025 as Proposal 7, 'Report on Charitable Giving'. About 1.87% of the shares voted for and against were in favour (169,119,141 for, 8,884,470,350 against, 87,816,017 abstentions, 3,038,264,304 broker non-votes). The proposal was not approved. Three other shareholder proposals were on the same ballot from other proponents, including a request that Apple cease its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, which drew 210,451,697 votes in favour.
• American Family Association at Deere & Company
  American Family Association · Deere & Company · 2025 · Precatory proposal voted on as Proposal 8 at the annual meeting of 26 February 2025. Votes for 2,549,298; votes against 200,450,816; abstentions 2,066,411; broker non-votes 31,663,030. That is 1.26% of the votes cast for and against, or 1.24% if abstentions are counted in the base. The proposal was not approved. Deere's board recommended a vote against it.
• National Legal and Policy Center at Microsoft Corporation
  National Legal and Policy Center · Microsoft · 2025 · Voted on as Proposal 7 at the annual meeting of 5 December 2025. Not approved: 683,895,858 votes for, 4,435,809,588 against, 63,749,211 abstaining and 1,137,975,835 broker non-votes. Microsoft reported this as 13.36% support, which is the share of the votes cast for and against. It was the second year running that the National Legal and Policy Center had put the proposal to Microsoft shareholders.
• Investor Alliance for Human Rights (coalition statement) at Amazon, Apple, X, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance, Tencent, Samsung, Kakao, VK, and Yandex (14 companies)
  Investor Alliance for Human Rights · Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc., Alphabet Inc. · 2025 · Not a shareholder vote, so there is no vote result. The statement responded to the 2025 Ranking Digital Rights Big Tech Index, which scored 14 companies and found that for the third time no company scored above 50%. Two companies' scores fell, X most sharply in the index's history, and Microsoft took the top place without having improved its score since 2022.
• ICCR member investors at 60 companies on lobbying and political spending disclosure, 2025
  ICCR member investors · AbbVie, Air Products · 2025 · Expanded disclosure was agreed and the resolutions withdrawn at eight companies, and the proposals were due to appear on the proxy ballots of six companies at annual meetings in spring 2025.
• ICCR member investors at 63 companies including Starbucks, Boeing and Stride
  ICCR members and allied investors; the Stride proposal was filed by the Service Employees International Union Pension Plans Master Trust · Starbucks Corporation, Boeing · 2024 · Of the 63 proposals, the outcomes named in ICCR's account are these: Starbucks and Boeing reached negotiated agreements and the proposals there were withdrawn, and the resolution at Stride came close to a majority. Stride's own filing certifies that vote as 17,857,527 for and 18,249,329 against, with 542,640 abstentions and 1,979,998 broker non-votes, which is 49.5% of the votes cast for and against. The outcomes at the remaining sixty companies are not stated in the source.
• School Sisters of Notre Dame Cooperative Investment Fund at Northrop Grumman on political activities and human rights, 2023
  School Sisters of Notre Dame Collective Investment Fund · Northrop Grumman · 2023 · 20.0 percent in favor at the May 17, 2023 annual meeting: 24,027,963 for, 95,937,437 against, 1,728,014 abstentions and 13,719,402 broker non-votes. It was Proposal 6 on the ballot and was not approved.
• As You Sow at S&P 500 companies ranked in the 100 Most Overpaid CEOs report, led by Warner Bros. Discovery
  As You Sow · Warner Bros. Discovery, Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. · 2023 · The report says 21 S&P 500 companies saw at least 50 percent of their shares reject the chief executive's pay package in the year covered, a 25 percent increase on the 16 in the previous report, and that BlackRock voted against only 5.7 percent of S&P 500 pay packages in 2022 and Vanguard against only 4.8 percent.
• Oxfam America and the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate at ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Amazon
  Oxfam America · ExxonMobil, Chevron Corporation, ConocoPhillips · 2023 · All four proposals were voted down in May 2023. The companies' own filings certify: ExxonMobil Proposal 15, 362,470,349 for and 2,307,000,846 against, reported by the company as 13.6%; Chevron item 11, 196,909,938 for and 1,148,005,158 against, reported as 14.6%; ConocoPhillips, 163,457,088 for and 782,322,358 against, which is 17.3% of the votes cast for and against; and Amazon, 1,293,326,053 for and 6,014,635,870 against, which is 17.7%. The FACT Coalition reported the same votes on different denominators, as 14% of outstanding shareholders at ExxonMobil and Chevron, 17% at ConocoPhillips and 21.4% of independent shareholders at Amazon.
• SEIU Pension Plans Master Trust at Stride on lobbying disclosure, 2023
  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) · Stride, Inc. · 2023 · Item 5 at the annual meeting of 7 December 2023. The proposal was not approved: 17,857,527 votes for, 18,249,329 against, 542,640 abstentions and 1,979,998 broker non-votes.
• John Chevedden at Dollar General
  John Chevedden · Dollar General Corporation · 2022 · Approved at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting, with 111,278,949 votes for, 83,994,794 against, 768,333 abstaining and 10,283,363 broker non-votes.
• Trillium Asset Management at The Travelers Companies
  Trillium Asset Management · Travelers Companies (The) · 2022 · Voted on as Item 7 at the annual meeting of 25 May 2022 and not approved: 90,964,616 votes for, 101,866,066 against, 2,368,239 abstaining and 19,306,309 broker non-votes. That is 47.2% of the votes cast for and against, which is the 47 percent the earlier version of this row recorded. Travelers' board recommended a vote against it.
• Nathan Cummings Foundation at Alphabet
  Nathan Cummings Foundation · Alphabet Inc. · 2022 · Voted on as Proposal 9 at the annual meeting of 1 June 2022 and not approved: 134,699,006 votes for, 466,991,436 against, 2,089,507 abstaining and 30,350,444 broker non-votes, which is 22.4% of the votes cast for and against. Alphabet's dual-class structure gives insiders ten votes per share. Open MIC calculates that once current Alphabet directors and officers are removed, 64.3% of the remaining shareholders voted in favour.
• AkademikerPension at Microsoft
  AkademikerPension · Microsoft · 2022 · Voted on as Shareholder Proposal 6 at the annual meeting of 13 December 2022 and not approved: 1,188,222,206 votes for, 3,982,547,802 against, 30,776,762 abstaining and 1,205,617,945 broker non-votes, which Microsoft reported as 22.97% support. That was the highest support of the six shareholder proposals on that ballot, the next highest being 20.43%. The FACT Coalition described the same vote as investors representing more than $305 billion backing the proposal.
• Greater Manchester Pension Fund and co-filers at Cisco
  Greater Manchester Pension Fund · Cisco · 2022 · Voted on as Proposal 4 at the annual meeting of 8 December 2022 and not approved: 781,754,210 votes for, 2,120,268,096 against, 31,263,008 abstaining and 462,490,228 broker non-votes. That is 26.9% of the votes cast for and against, the 27 percent the FACT Coalition reported, which it also described as $38.3 billion in shares.
• Tax transparency at Amazon, co-filed by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
  Lead filer not named in Amazon's proxy statement; the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate United States Province was a co-filer · Amazon.com Inc. · 2022 · Voted on as Item 12 at the annual meeting of 25 May 2022 and not approved: 64,702,796 votes for, 305,060,237 against, 3,107,496 abstaining and 53,465,310 broker non-votes, which is 17.5% of the votes cast for and against. The FACT Coalition reported the same vote as more than 21 percent of independent shareholders, representing $144 billion in shares, and said it was the first time a public country-by-country reporting proposal had gone to a vote anywhere.
• Zevin Asset Management at Walmart on lobbying disclosure, 2022
  Zevin Asset Management · Walmart · 2022 · Proposal No. 10 at the annual shareholders' meeting of 1 June 2022, rejected: 322,914,850 votes for, 1,914,044,836 against, 5,334,090 abstentions and 207,665,975 broker non-votes.
• ICCR member investors on climate lobbying at 21 companies, 2022
  ICCR member investors · United Parcel Service, Alphabet Inc., FedEx · 2022 · Sixteen of the 21 proposals were withdrawn in exchange for corporate commitments that met the proposals' requests. Where the Paris alignment proposal reached a vote it was rejected each time: Honeywell, 25 April 2022, 204,987,160 for and 313,950,913 against, about 40 percent; UPS, 5 May 2022, 432,987,745 for and 869,820,738 against, about 33 percent; Alphabet, 1 June 2022, 113,506,023 for and 482,661,112 against, about 19 percent.
• The Humane Society of the United States at McDonald's on gestation crate disclosure, and its SEC deception complaint, 2022
  Humane World for Animals (formerly The Humane Society of the United States) · McDonald's Corporation · 2022 · Printed in McDonald's 2022 proxy statement as Proposal 7, then withdrawn by the Humane Society before the meeting, so it was not voted on at the annual meeting of 26 May 2022.
• The Humane Society of the United States at Brinker International on supply chain practices that breach its own supplier code, 2022
  Humane World for Animals (formerly The Humane Society of the United States) · Brinker International · 2022 · The SEC staff refused Brinker's request to leave the proposal out of its 2022 proxy materials, writing on 15 September 2022 that it was unable to concur that the proposal could be excluded under Rule 14a-8(i)(7) because the proposal transcends ordinary business matters. The proposal is nevertheless absent from the proxy statement Brinker filed on 3 October 2022, and it was not among the five matters voted on at the annual meeting of 17 November 2022. It does not appear in the 2023 proxy statement either.
• Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood at PNC Financial Services on financing nuclear weapons, 2021
  Sisters of St. Joseph of Brentwood · PNC Financial Services · 2021 · 7.95 percent in favor at the April 27, 2021 annual meeting: 26,540,293 for, 307,230,915 against, 6,159,791 abstentions and 34,770,252 broker non-votes. It was item 4 on the ballot and was not approved. Investor Advocates for Social Justice reported it as 7.9 percent.
• ICCR member investors on climate lobbying at five companies, 2021
  ICCR member investors · Norfolk Southern, Delta Air Lines, ExxonMobil · 2021 · Majority votes at all five companies, each certified by the company's own Form 8-K. Norfolk Southern, 13 May 2021: 143,817,090 for and 44,333,194 against, about 76 percent. ExxonMobil, 26 May 2021: 1,752,779,954 for and 992,506,297 against, certified as 63.8 percent. United Airlines Holdings, 26 May 2021: 103,084,540 for and 54,527,783 against, about 65 percent. Delta Air Lines, 17 June 2021: 225,669,077 for and 132,799,058 against, about 63 percent. Phillips 66, 12 May 2021: 195,837,321 for and 117,573,625 against, about 63 percent.
• SEIU Benefit Plans Master Trust at Stride on lobbying disclosure, 2021
  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) · Stride, Inc. · 2021 · Item 4 on the proxy card for the annual meeting of 10 December 2021, but never voted: the company certified that the proposal was not considered or voted on because the proponent did not send a representative to the meeting to present it.
• New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York City Retirement Systems (Boardroom Accountability Project 3.0) at 17 companies including Activision Blizzard, Dover, Expedia, Fastenal, Genuine Parts, Hilton, L Brands, MarketAxess, Nekt
  Office of the New York City Comptroller and the New York City pension funds · Dover Corporation, Expedia Group, Fastenal · 2020 · Proposals went to 17 companies for the spring 2020 season and were withdrawn where the company adopted the policy. Thirteen did so, and Lamb Weston adopted after a further proposal for its autumn 2020 meeting, making fourteen in all. Three went to a vote. At Expeditors International on May 5, 2020 the proposal drew 74,009,398 votes for, 65,978,415 against, 399,882 abstaining and 10,729,918 broker non-votes, which is 52.87 percent counting only votes for and against. At Arthur J. Gallagher on May 12, 2020 it drew 36,723,783 for, 113,546,604 against, 987,789 abstaining and 14,912,210 broker non-votes, or 24.44 percent. At Berkshire Hathaway on May 2, 2020 it drew 69,076 for, 490,884 against and 3,789 abstaining, or 12.34 percent.
• National Center for Public Policy Research at The Boeing Company
  Free Enterprise Project (National Center for Public Policy Research) · Boeing · 2020 · Voted on as Item 4 at the annual meeting on April 27, 2020 and not approved. Boeing's Form 8-K reports 47,289,612 votes for, 311,415,100 against, 4,634,782 abstaining and 109,406,933 broker non-votes. That is 13.18 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 13.02 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• National Center for Public Policy Research at Salesforce.com, Inc.
  Free Enterprise Project (National Center for Public Policy Research) · Salesforce · 2019 · Voted on as Proposal 6, the only stockholder proposal on the ballot, at the annual meeting on June 6, 2019, and rejected. Salesforce's Form 8-K reports 7,184,666 votes for, 603,191,242 against, 7,444,469 abstaining and 82,748,580 broker non-votes. That is 1.18 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 1.16 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• National Center for Public Policy Research at Starbucks Corporation
  Free Enterprise Project (National Center for Public Policy Research) · Starbucks Corporation · 2019 · Voted on as Proposal 4 at the annual meeting on March 20, 2019 and rejected. Starbucks' Form 8-K reports 14,608,573 votes for, 845,056,279 against, 12,902,535 abstaining and 229,123,837 broker non-votes. That is 1.70 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 1.67 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• National Center for Public Policy Research at Apple Inc.
  Free Enterprise Project (National Center for Public Policy Research) · Apple Inc. · 2019 · Voted on as Proposal No. 5 at the annual meeting on March 1, 2019 and not approved. Apple's Form 8-K reports 45,732,679 votes for, 2,627,300,224 against, 36,765,636 abstaining and 1,402,346,727 broker non-votes. That is 1.71 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 1.69 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• Hal S. Scott (Harvard Law professor, individual shareholder) and the Doris Behr 2012 Irrevocable Trust at Johnson & Johnson
  Hal S. Scott (Harvard Law professor, individual shareholder) and the Doris Behr 2012 Irrevocable Trust · Johnson & Johnson · 2019 · Excluded. Johnson & Johnson sought and received SEC no-action relief, resting on a New Jersey Attorney General opinion that the bylaw would violate state law, and left the proposal out of its 2019 proxy statement, which carried only two shareholder proposals, on clawback disclosure and on executive compensation and drug pricing risks. The proponents' federal suit was then dismissed in its entirety on June 30, 2021.
• Mercy Investment Services and United Church Funds at five drugmakers on drug pricing in executive pay, 2020
  Mercy Investment Services · AbbVie, Amgen, Biogen · 2019 · Filed on 14 November 2019 for the 2020 proxy season at AbbVie, Amgen, Biogen, Eli Lilly and Pfizer, with Mercy Investment Services lead filer at Amgen and Eli Lilly and United Church Funds leading the engagement with AbbVie. It reached a vote at two of the five. AbbVie, 8 May 2020: not approved, 249,382,082 for, 773,211,511 against, 19,752,693 abstaining and 251,100,201 broker non-votes, or 24.4 percent of the votes cast for and against. Eli Lilly, 4 May 2020: not approved, 184,652,906 for, 570,094,648 against, 27,534,077 abstaining and 83,997,305 broker non-votes, or 24.5 percent. No proposal on drug pricing and executive pay appears in the certified results of Amgen's meeting on 19 May 2020, Biogen's on 3 June 2020 or Pfizer's on 23 April 2020.
• United Church Funds and ICCR members at AbbVie on drug pricing risk in executive pay, 2018
  United Church Funds · AbbVie · 2018 · Not approved at the 4 May 2018 annual meeting: 247,879,964 for, 887,590,325 against, 14,559,605 abstaining and 260,703,800 broker non-votes, which is 21.8 percent of the votes cast for and against. It was a first-time proposal, it survived AbbVie's attempt at the SEC to have it omitted from the proxy, and the proxy adviser ISS recommended a vote for it.
• Bartlett Naylor of Public Citizen at Citigroup on breaking up the bank, 2016
  Public Citizen · Citigroup · 2016 · Proposal 8 at the annual meeting of 26 April 2016, not approved: 73,964,675 votes for, 2,004,403,208 against, 42,804,611 abstentions and 271,311,607 broker non-votes.
• Bartlett Naylor of Public Citizen at Bank of America on breaking up the bank, 2015
  Public Citizen · Bank of America · 2015 · Proposal 8 at the annual meeting of 6 May 2015, rejected: 264,642,301 votes for, 6,146,554,975 against, 77,078,384 abstentions and 2,100,430,585 broker non-votes.
• Michael Weinstein at Gilead Sciences on tying CEO pay to patient access, 2014
  Michael Weinstein, an individual shareholder · Gilead Sciences · 2014 · Not approved at the 7 May 2014 annual meeting as Proposal 7: 26,726,195 for, 1,048,057,432 against, 157,155,528 abstaining and 115,351,928 broker non-votes, which is 2.5 percent of the votes cast for and against.

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