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23 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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  ICCR member investors · AbbVie, Air Products · 2025 · Expanded disclosure was agreed and the resolutions withdrawn at eight companies, and the proposals were due to appear on the proxy ballots of six companies at annual meetings in spring 2025.
• 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.
• New York City Retirement Systems and co-filers at Starbucks on freedom of association, 2023
  Office of the New York City Comptroller and the New York City pension funds · Starbucks Corporation · 2023 · Approved at the 23 March 2023 annual meeting as Proposal 8: 418,792,991 for, 386,056,422 against, 10,661,648 abstaining and 152,169,391 broker non-votes, which is 52.0 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• ICCR and allied investors on a living wage for U.S. workers, from 2023
  Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility · U.S. companies collectively, with the emphasis on low-wage retail, restaurant, hospitality and gig sectors · 2023 · The statement, 'Investor Support for a Living Wage for U.S. Workers', was released on 14 November 2023 and has over 125 signatories representing over 4 trillion US dollars in assets. It remains open, with the coalition accepting new signatories on a rolling basis.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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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