Workers' Rights

Wages, safety, organizing rights, and supply-chain labor conditions.

15 campaigns on this issue

• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility members at McDonald's
  Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility members · McDonald's Corporation · 2025 · not stated in source
• 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& Company · 2025 · Filed as Proposal 05 on Deere's proxy statement for the annual meeting of February 26, 2025 and withdrawn before the meeting after several months of dialogue with the company. Deere's Form 8-K records that the proposal was withdrawn, was not presented or voted upon, and that no votes were tabulated.
• Legal & General Investment Management America at Walmart
  Legal & General Investment Management America · Walmart · 2024 · The SEC staff declined to concur that Walmart could exclude the proposal under Rule 14a-8(i)(7), finding that it transcends ordinary business matters, so it reached the ballot as Proposal No. 7. At the annual meeting on 5 June 2024 it was rejected, with 294,769,269 shares voted for, 6,372,320,195 against and 32,796,608 abstaining, alongside 630,945,292 broker non-votes.
• 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.
• Catherine Donnelly Foundation at Amazon on freedom of association, 2024
  Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Amazon.com Inc. · 2024 · Not approved at the 22 May 2024 annual meeting, as Item 12 on the proxy: 2,398,484,693 for, 5,141,991,512 against, 51,835,210 abstaining and 1,260,267,192 broker non-votes, which is 31.8 percent of the votes cast for and against.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• ShareAction and ten investors at Sainsbury's on the real Living Wage, 2022
  ShareAction · Sainsbury's · 2022 · 16.7 percent of investors voted for it at the annual general meeting on 7 July 2022, with a further 2.6 percent abstaining. It was the United Kingdom's first Living Wage resolution, tabled by ten investors managing 2.2 trillion pounds, among them the country's largest asset manager and its largest workplace pension scheme, alongside 108 individual shareholders. The Sainsbury's board and both major proxy advisers, Glass Lewis and ISS, urged investors to vote against it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Communications Workers of America at Sprint
  Communications Workers of America · Sprint Corporation · 2004 · Voted on as Item 6 at the annual meeting on April 20, 2004 and rejected. Sprint's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 reports 90,348,634 votes for, 803,327,826 against, 97,175,145 abstaining and 156,191,721 broker non-votes. That is 10.11 percent in favour counting only votes for and against, or 9.12 percent if abstentions are included in the base.

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