Fosters an inclusive workplace

10 campaigns on this issue

• As You Sow at Deere & Company
  As You Sow · Deere & Company · 2025 · Filed as Proposal 05 on Deere's proxy statement for the annual meeting of February 26, 2025 and withdrawn before the meeting after several months of dialogue with the company. Deere's Form 8-K records that the proposal was withdrawn, was not presented or voted upon, and that no votes were tabulated.
• Stanley Monroe and Laurie Carson, represented by Arjuna Capital at Amazon.com
  Arjuna Capital · Amazon.com Inc. · 2024 · Voted on as Item 8 at the annual meeting held on May 22, 2024 and not approved. Amazon's Form 8-K reports 2,221,121,179 votes for, 5,338,238,279 against, 32,951,957 abstaining and 1,260,267,192 broker non-votes. That is 29.38 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 29.25 percent if abstentions are included in the base.
• Trillium Asset Management at Bright Horizons Family Solutions on workforce disclosure, 2025
  Trillium Asset Management · Bright Horizons Family Solutions · 2024 · Submitted on 17 December 2024 for the 2025 annual meeting. Bright Horizons asked the SEC on 31 January 2025 for leave to omit it, as ordinary business under Rule 14a-8(i)(7) and as substantially implemented under Rule 14a-8(i)(10). Trillium withdrew the proposal by email on 4 February 2025, the company withdrew its request the next day, and on 7 February 2025 the staff replied that the matter was moot and it would not comment. Shareholders never voted on it.
• Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia at Chevron
  Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia · Chevron Corporation · 2022 · Not approved, but close: 657,196,358 votes for (47.5 percent) and 727,194,005 against (52.5 percent), with 20,231,593 abstentions and 255,146,992 broker non-votes, as Proposal 9 at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting.
• SEIU Pension Plans Master Trust at Wells Fargo
  Service Employees International Union (SEIU) · Wells Fargo · 2022 · Rejected as Proposal 10 at the April 26, 2022 annual meeting: 1,033,495,599 for, 1,828,552,352 against, 29,764,513 abstentions and 361,311,531 broker non-votes, which Wells Fargo reported as 35.74 percent of the votes cast for, against and abstaining. Excluding abstentions that is the 36 percent American Banker reported, up from 13 percent in 2021.
• Arjuna Capital at The Walt Disney Company on race and gender pay gaps, 2022
  Arjuna Capital · Walt Disney Company (The) · 2022 · A majority of votes cast supported it at the 9 March 2022 annual meeting, as Proposal 7: 686,478,918 for, 464,919,023 against, 9,767,813 abstaining and 280,795,356 broker non-votes, which is 59.6 percent of the votes cast for and against. The vote came weeks after Disney appealed to the SEC for relief from putting the proposal to a vote, on the ground that it would affect ongoing class action litigation, and the SEC denied the request.
• New York State Common Retirement Fund at Activision Blizzard, Inc.
  Office of the New York State Comptroller and the New York State Common Retirement Fund · Activision Blizzard, Inc. · 2022 · Approved at the June 21, 2022 annual meeting against the board's unanimous recommendation to vote no. The certified count was 379,308,934 votes for and 183,876,515 against, with 35,277,508 abstentions and 49,424,806 broker non-votes, which is 67.4 percent of the votes cast for and against. The proxy advisers Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services both recommended it.
• New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and New York City Retirement Systems at DuPont and Union Pacific (part of proposals at 24 companies)
  Office of the New York City Comptroller and the New York City pension funds · DuPont, Union Pacific Corporation · 2021 · Approved at both companies. At DuPont's annual meeting on April 28, 2021 the proposal drew 294,360,528 votes for, 57,074,382 against, 6,311,867 abstaining and 74,671,375 broker non-votes, which is 83.76 percent in favour counting only votes for and against. At Union Pacific's annual meeting on May 13, 2021 it drew 441,636,357 for, 69,285,038 against, 5,083,118 abstaining and 67,090,884 broker non-votes, which is 86.44 percent.
• 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.
• Clean Yield Asset Management at Wells Fargo
  Clean Yield Asset Management · Wells Fargo · 2020 · Withdrawn after the company agreed. Clean Yield submitted the proposal late in 2019 and withdrew it once Wells Fargo announced the change.

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