Public Health

Product safety, pricing, and corporate practices that shape health outcomes.

33 campaigns on this issue

• 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.
• As You Sow at Tyson Foods on waste lagoon harms, 2026
  As You Sow · Tyson Foods · 2026 · Not approved at the February 5, 2026 annual meeting: 23,451,579 for, 896,423,218 against, 1,303,561 abstentions and 27,064,015 broker non-votes, which is 2.5 percent of the votes cast for and against. As You Sow records the same outcome as 2.5 percent overall and 11.0 percent of independent shareholder votes; Tyson's Class B stock, 99.99 percent of it held by the Tyson Limited Partnership, votes together with Class A as a single class on shareholder proposals.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2025
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2025 · Not approved at the 28 May 2025 annual meeting, as Proposal Nine: 669,263,526 votes for, 4,314,033,460 against, 10,306,035 abstentions and 204,772,865 broker non-votes, about 13.4 percent of the shares voted for and against.
• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility members at six drugmakers on patents and access, 2024
  Trinity Health · AbbVie, Eli Lilly, Gilead Sciences · 2024 · Not approved where it reached a vote. AbbVie, 3 May 2024: 315,426,248 for, 941,651,498 against, 17,953,817 abstaining and 245,929,517 broker non-votes. Eli Lilly, 6 May 2024: 68,370,561 for, 699,538,270 against, 6,506,288 abstaining and 82,256,109 broker non-votes. At the other four companies it did not reach a vote.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2024
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2024 · Not approved at the 29 May 2024 annual meeting: 925,650,012 votes for, 4,088,656,336 against, 10,232,329 abstentions and 204,808,280 broker non-votes, as certified in Meta's Item 5.07 Form 8-K. The lead filer puts that at 18.5 percent of the vote, and a majority of 59.1 percent of the vote not controlled by management, because Meta's dual class structure gives the chief executive ten votes a share.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2024
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2024 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 29 May 2024, not approved: 925,650,012 votes for, 4,088,656,336 against, 10,232,329 abstentions and 204,808,280 broker non-votes.
• Coordinates an Animal Pharmaceuticals engagement with the largest listed veterinary-drug makers on antimicrobial resistance
  FAIRR Initiative · Zoetis, Elanco Animal Health, Merck & Co. Animal Health · 2024 · Phase 2 was supported by 80 investors representing US$17.4 trillion in combined assets, and FAIRR published its progress report From Farms to Forks: Antibiotic Stewardship in the Animal Pharmaceutical and Quick Service Restaurant Sectors in May 2024.
• 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.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child safety, 2023
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2023 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 31 May 2023, not approved: 817,020,915 votes for, 4,202,589,505 against, 15,619,333 abstentions and 223,805,267 broker non-votes.
• 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.
• Oxfam America at Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson on COVID-19 vaccine access
  Oxfam America · Moderna, Pfizer Inc., Johnson & Johnson · 2022 · All three proposals were voted down at meetings held on 28 April 2022. Moderna's Proposal 4 drew 70,878,392 votes for and 227,007,857 against, with 1,518,730 abstentions and 34,671,090 broker non-votes, which is 23.8% of the votes cast for and against. Pfizer's Item 6 drew 1,023,141,083 for and 2,714,524,824 against, or 27.4%. Johnson & Johnson's Item 8 drew 616,715,019 for and 1,207,732,861 against, or 33.8%. Oxfam put the Moderna figure at 24 percent of the nominal vote and 29 percent of the independent vote, once the 17 percent held by the company's directors and senior executives is set aside, and said it was the first time shareholders had voted for a resolution of this kind on any company proxy ballot.
• Proxy Impact and co-filers at Meta Platforms on child sexual exploitation online, 2022
  Proxy Impact · Meta Platforms · 2022 · Proposal Eleven at the annual meeting of 25 May 2022, not approved: 910,386,444 votes for, 4,358,740,887 against, 18,979,089 abstentions and 244,034,088 broker non-votes.
• As You Sow at Kellogg
  As You Sow · Kellogg · 2020 · withdrawn after company agreement Resolutions were filed in both 2017 and 2020 and were resolved by a negotiated company commitment rather than a vote.
• 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.
• FAIRR Initiative Restaurant Antibiotics engagement at Starbucks Corporation
  FAIRR Initiative · Starbucks Corporation · 2019 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. FAIRR's Phase 2 progress report found that while 10 companies have a policy for broiler chickens, 50% of the QSRs do not have a public policy covering any of the other proteins.
• FAIRR Initiative Restaurant Antibiotics engagement at The Cheesecake Factory
  FAIRR Initiative · The Cheesecake Factory · 2019 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. FAIRR's Phase 2 progress report found that while 10 companies have a policy for broiler chickens, 50% of the QSRs do not have a public policy covering any of the other proteins.
• FAIRR Initiative Restaurant Antibiotics engagement at Texas Roadhouse
  FAIRR Initiative · Texas Roadhouse · 2019 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. FAIRR's Phase 2 progress report found that while 10 companies have a policy for broiler chickens, 50% of the QSRs do not have a public policy covering any of the other proteins.
• FAIRR Initiative Restaurant Antibiotics engagement at Papa John's International
  FAIRR Initiative · Papa John's International · 2019 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. FAIRR's Phase 2 progress report found that while 10 companies have a policy for broiler chickens, 50% of the QSRs do not have a public policy covering any of the other proteins.
• FAIRR Initiative Restaurant Antibiotics engagement at Darden Restaurants
  FAIRR Initiative · Darden Restaurants · 2019 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. FAIRR's Phase 2 progress report found that while 10 companies have a policy for broiler chickens, 50% of the QSRs do not have a public policy covering any of the other proteins.
• As You Sow and American Baptist Home Mission Society at Tyson Foods on water stewardship, 2018
  As You Sow · Tyson Foods · 2018 · Not approved at the February 8, 2018 annual meeting: 147,700,207 for, 784,979,383 against, 9,907,374 abstentions and 20,108,688 broker non-votes, which is 15.8 percent of the votes cast for and against. It was Proposal No. 2 on the ballot.
• 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.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Whitbread
  FAIRR Initiative · Whitbread · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at The Restaurant Group
  FAIRR Initiative · The Restaurant Group · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Sonic Corp
  FAIRR Initiative · Sonic Corp · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Mitchells & Butlers
  FAIRR Initiative · Mitchells & Butlers · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Marston's
  FAIRR Initiative · Marston's · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at JD Wetherspoon
  FAIRR Initiative · JD Wetherspoon · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Greene King
  FAIRR Initiative · Greene King · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Dine Brands Global
  FAIRR Initiative · Dine Brands Global · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Denny's Corporation
  FAIRR Initiative · Denny's Corporation · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• FAIRR Initiative Antibiotics Stewardship engagement at Domino's Pizza Group
  FAIRR Initiative · Domino's Pizza Inc · 2018 · No shareholder vote: this is a collaborative investor engagement. By 2019, 17 out of 20 companies had publicly available policies, while 2 had internal policies and 1 was developing a policy.
• 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.
• American Legislative Exchange Council and member companies against local paid sick leave, from 2011
  American Legislative Exchange Council · Yum! Brands, Darden Restaurants, Walt Disney Company (The) · 2011 · Wisconsin passed Senate Bill 23 in May 2011, overriding the Milwaukee paid sick days ordinance that voters had approved by referendum with over 70 percent of the vote in 2008. At ALEC's August 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, legislators on the Labor and Business Regulation Subcommittee, co-chaired by Yum! Brands, were given complete copies of that bill as a model for state override, along with a target list and map of state and local paid sick leave policies prepared by the National Restaurant Association. A preemption bill was introduced in Tennessee and became law in Louisiana in 2012, and by 2013 similar bills had been introduced in Florida, Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arizona, Indiana and Oklahoma.

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