Protects worker health and safety

15 campaigns on this issue

• AFL-CIO at Amazon.com
  AFL-CIO · Amazon.com Inc. · 2025 · Presented at the May 21, 2025 annual meeting by Isaiah Thomas, an RWDSU organiser and former Amazon warehouse employee, and not approved; every shareholder proposal on that ballot failed. Ten resolutions were filed at Amazon for the season and only five reached the proxy, the rest kept off through the SEC no-action process. Amazon's certified Item 5.07 report lists two AI proposals: an assessment of board structure for oversight of AI, 791,178,046 for and 6,914,111,284 against, and a report on data usage oversight in AI offerings, 829,568,766 for and 6,856,599,378 against. Amazon names no proponents, so which of the two is the AFL-CIO's cannot be read from the filings and no percentage is recorded here.
• Tulipshare at Amazon on an independent audit of warehouse working conditions, 2024
  Tulipshare · Amazon.com Inc. · 2024 · Not approved at the 22 May 2024 annual meeting, as Item 17 on the proxy: 2,356,031,178 for, 5,185,496,222 against, 50,784,015 abstaining and 1,260,267,192 broker non-votes, which is 31.2 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• ICCR member investors on paid sick leave at thirteen retail, restaurant, logistics and rail companies, 2023
  ICCR member investors · Amazon.com Inc., Best Buy, CVS Health · 2023 · In 2023 ICCR members engaged thirteen companies, Amazon, Best Buy, CVS, Denny's, Dine Brands, FedEx, Hilton, Norfolk Southern, Target, TJX, Union Pacific, YUM! Brands and Macy's, and filed nine shareholder proposals, at CVS, Denny's, FedEx, Hilton, Norfolk Southern, TJX, Union Pacific, YUM! Brands and Macy's. The coalition's own account does not give a vote percentage for any of them.
• Domini Impact Investments at Nike
  Domini Impact Investments · Nike, Inc. · 2023 · Moved by an investor group led by the Domini Impact Equity Fund and voted at Nike's September 10, 2024 annual meeting as Proposal 6, Worker-Driven Social Responsibility. It was not approved: 140,736,818 votes for and 999,936,226 against, with 9,627,068 abstentions and 123,095,933 broker non-votes, which is 12.3 percent of the votes cast for and against. Nike's board recommended a vote against. Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Nike's ninth-largest shareholder, backed the proposal in the week before the meeting.
• Domini Impact Investments at Dollar General
  Domini Impact Investments · Dollar General Corporation · 2023 · Approved over the board's opposition at the May 31, 2023 annual meeting, where it was Proposal 7. The certified count was 122,752,549 votes for and 58,562,783 against, with 4,051,930 abstentions and 11,395,363 broker non-votes, which is 67.7 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• Figure 8 Investment Strategies at TJX Companies
  Figure 8 Investment Strategies · TJX Companies · 2023 · Not approved at the June 6, 2023 annual meeting, where it was Proposal 7. The certified count was 212,540,477 votes for and 741,089,547 against, with 11,315,069 abstentions and 61,591,217 broker non-votes, which is 22.29 percent of the votes cast for and against and matches the figure the PRI resolution database records. Rothschild & Co Asset Management pre-declared a vote in favour.
• Impact Shares and Trillium Asset Management at Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific on paid sick leave, 2023
  Impact Shares · Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific Corporation · 2022 · Announced on 5 December 2022, filed at both railroads for the 2023 annual meetings: Impact Shares at Norfolk Southern and Trillium Asset Management at Union Pacific. It reached a vote at one of the two. Union Pacific, 18 May 2023, Proposal 7: rejected, 53,102,043 for, 400,261,287 against, 7,238,541 abstaining and 67,585,896 broker non-votes, or 11.7 percent of the votes cast for and against. No paid sick leave proposal appears in the certified results of Norfolk Southern's meeting on 11 May 2023, whose only shareholder proposal concerned the rights of street name and non-street name shareholders.
• Tulipshare at Amazon.com
  Tulipshare · Amazon.com Inc. · 2022 · Not approved at the May 25, 2022 annual meeting, where it was item 16 on the ballot and was introduced by Isaiah Thomas, an Amazon employee at the Bessemer, Alabama facility. The certified count was 163,081,744 votes for and 207,204,341 against, with 2,584,444 abstentions and 53,465,310 broker non-votes, which is 44 percent of the votes cast for and against. Tulipshare puts support among shares independent of company insiders at 53.4 percent, a majority. Tulipshare refiled the proposal in 2023, when it records 35.4 percent of the overall vote.
• Domini Impact Investments at Amazon
  Domini Impact Investments · Amazon.com Inc. · 2022 · Filed for the 2022 proxy season and announced in December 2021, with Domini Impact Investments as lead proponent of a worker health and safety audit at Amazon. It did not reach the ballot. Amazon's certified Item 5.07 report for the May 25, 2022 annual meeting lists every proposal voted on and none of them is this one; the item with a similar name, a report on worker health and safety differences, was filed by the New York City Comptroller. Whether Domini's proposal was withdrawn or omitted under a no-action ruling is not settled by the documents opened.
• Trillium Asset Management at CVS Health, Target, Kroger, TJX Companies (multi-company campaign)
  Trillium Asset Management · CVS Health, Target Corporation, Kroger · 2022 · Only the CVS proposal is documented to Trillium, and it reached a vote rather than being kept off the ballot. Trillium, with Vancity Investment Management and co-filer Portico Benefit Services, urged CVS shareholders to vote for Item 7, paid sick leave for all employees, at the May 2022 annual meeting; it was not approved, with 255,627,021 votes for and 719,860,486 against, which is 26.2 percent of the votes cast for and against. No paid sick leave proposal reached the 2022 ballot at Target or at Kroger. One did reach TJX's ballot as Proposal 8 and was not approved, 327,838,039 for and 642,543,754 against, but the exempt solicitation for it names Figure 8 Investment Strategies as the proponent, not Trillium.
• United Church Funds at Amazon
  United Church Funds · Amazon.com Inc. · 2022 · Filed for the 2022 proxy season and announced in December 2021, with United Church Funds as lead proponent, asking Amazon to establish paid sick leave for all employees. It did not reach the ballot: Amazon's certified Item 5.07 report for the May 25, 2022 annual meeting lists the fifteen shareholder proposals voted on and no paid sick leave proposal is among them. Whether it was withdrawn or omitted is not settled by the documents opened.
• Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, NY at Wendy's
  Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, NY · The Wendy's Company · 2021 · Approved at the May 18, 2021 annual meeting. The certified count was 151,174,213 votes for and 7,474,784 against, with 1,612,292 abstentions and 22,521,497 broker non-votes, which is 95.3 percent of the votes cast for and against. Wendy's had asked the SEC for no-action relief to leave the proposal off the ballot, did not get it, and then recommended that shareholders vote for it.
• American Baptist Home Mission Society at Tyson Foods
  American Baptist Home Mission Society · Tyson Foods · 2021 · Not approved at the February 11, 2021 annual meeting. The certified count was 168,155,962 votes for and 746,977,377 against, with 1,333,787 abstentions and 26,870,881 broker non-votes, which is 18.4 percent of the votes cast for and against. The Tyson family's supervoting Class B stock carries most of the voting power, and Investor Advocates for Social Justice put support among independent investors, excluding the Tyson Limited Partnership, at 78.7 percent. This was the third year the proposal had been filed at Tyson: in 2020 it drew 14.58 percent overall and 59.68 percent of independent shares. BlackRock and Vanguard voted for it, and Norges Bank and CalSTRS pre-declared support.
• Domini Impact Investments at CVS, Dollar General, Kohl's, Kroger, McDonald's, Walmart, Yum! Brands
  Domini Impact Investments · CVS Health, Dollar General Corporation, Kroger · 2021 · Announced on 17 December 2020: proposals filed for the 2021 proxy season at seven companies, CVS, Dollar General, Kohl's, Kroger, McDonald's, Walmart and Yum! Brands, asking each board to report on the feasibility of paid sick leave as a standard employee benefit beyond the pandemic. None of the seven reached a vote. The certified Item 5.07 report for every one of those seven annual meetings was read, and no paid sick leave proposal appears among the matters voted on at any of them, so each proposal was withdrawn or omitted before the ballot. The documents opened do not say which of the two happened at which company, or on what terms.
• 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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