Shareholder proposals

2,290 proposals put to a vote by the owners of these companies, read from the filings the companies themselves made to the SEC. 187 of them won a majority of the votes cast.

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212 matching, showing 121 to 180.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2020	General Motors	GM’s shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal to amend the shareholder aggregation limit in the proxy access provision of the Company’s bylaws		20.6%	Failed
2020	General Motors	GM’s shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal regarding shareholder written consent		40.9%	Failed
2020	General Dynamics	Shareholder Proposal with regard to Special Shareholders Meetings		40.2%	Failed
2020	Gen Digital	Stockholder proposal regarding political spending disclosure		8.7%	Failed
2020	Fortinet	The stockholder proposal requesting for Fortinet to publish an annual report assessing Fortinet’s diversity and inclusion efforts by the following votes	Nia Impact Capital	70%	Passed
2020	Fortinet	Fortinet’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal requesting to allow stockholders to act by written consent by the following votes	John Chevedden	41.3%	Failed
2020	Fiserv	The Company’s shareholders rejected a shareholder proposal requesting the Company provide political spending disclosure by the following votes		44.5%	Failed
2020	FirstEnergy	The non-binding shareholder proposal		28.2%	Failed
2020	Fastenal	Proposal #4 – A shareholder proposal related to diversity reporting	As You Sow	61.1%	Passed
2020	Elevance Health	The shareholder proposal to allow shareholders owning 10% or more of the Company’s common stock to call a special meeting of shareholders		49.4%	Failed
2020	Edwards Lifesciences	The advisory stockholder proposal regarding action by written consent	a) Long-Term Stock Program	17.8%	Failed
2020	eBay Inc.	The Company’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal regarding the right for stockholders to act by written consent		45.7%	Failed
2020	DuPont	The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal regarding a request for a employee board advisory position		4.4%	Failed
2020	DuPont	The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal regarding the modification of the threshold for calling special stockholder meetings		45%	Failed
2020	Duke Energy	Shareholder proposal regarding providing an annual report on Duke Energy’s lobbying payments		42.4%	Failed
2020	Duke Energy	Shareholder proposal regarding providing a semiannual report on Duke Energy’s political contributions and expenditures		38.9%	Failed
2020	Duke Energy	Shareholder proposal regarding elimination of supermajority voting provisions in Duke Energy’s Certificate of Incorporation		94.2%	Passed
2020	Duke Energy	Shareholder proposal regarding independent board chair		40.1%	Failed
2020	Dover Corporation	A shareholder proposal regarding the right to allow shareholders to act by written consent	John Chevedden	33.1%	Failed
2020	Dominion Energy	A shareholder proposal requesting the Company to permit shareholders the right to act by written consent		31.2%	Failed
2020	Dominion Energy	A shareholder proposal requesting the Company to adopt a policy to require an independent Board Chair		46.6%	Failed
2020	Dollar Tree	The shareholder proposal on greenhouse gas emissions goals		73.5%	Passed
2020	Delta Air Lines	The shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal related to the prevention of workplace sexual harassment		32.3%	Failed
2020	Delta Air Lines	The shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting the issuance of a political contributions report	Friends Fiduciary Corporation	46%	Failed
2020	Delta Air Lines	The shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting the issuance of a climate lobbying report		45.9%	Failed
2020	Delta Air Lines	The shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal regarding the ability of shareholders to act by written consent requiring the minimum number of votes necessary to authorize an action		46.3%	Failed
2020	Deere & Company	A shareholder proposal requesting that the Board adopt a policy to annually disclose to shareholders a description of the minimum qualifications the Governance Committee believes must be met by a Board nominee, and each nominee’s skills, ideological perspectives and experiences in a chart or matrix form, as set forth in the Proxy Statement, failed with the following vote		1.1%	Failed
2020	Cummins	Shareholder Proposal Regarding By-Law Amendments		5%	Failed
2020	Comcast	A shareholder proposal to conduct an independent investigation and report on risk posed by failing to prevent sexual harassment, as described in the proxy statement	Arjuna Capital	13.1%	Failed
2020	Comcast	A shareholder proposal to provide a report on lobbying activities, as described in the proxy statement		26.4%	Failed
2020	Colgate-Palmolive	A stockholder proposal regarding reducing the ownership threshold to call special stockholder meetings to 10%		45.4%	Failed
2020	Colgate-Palmolive	A stockholder proposal regarding independent Board Chairman		46.1%	Failed
2020	CMS Energy	Shareholder proposal relating to political contributions disclosure, more fully described in its proxy statement		34.9%	Failed
2020	Cisco	A shareholder proposal to have Cisco’s Board adopt a policy to have an independent Board chairman		32.6%	Failed
2020	Cintas	The shareholders opposed the shareholder proposal requesting the Corporation provide an annual report on political contributions		42.4%	Failed
2020	Cigna	Non-binding shareholder proposal regarding gender pay gap reporting		21%	Failed
2020	Cigna	Non-binding shareholder proposal regarding the right to call a special meeting		45.7%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding adopting a policy for an independent chairman		26.9%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding setting the special meeting threshold at ten percent		34.3%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on human rights practices		16.7%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on petrochemical risk		46%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on climate lobbying		53.5%	Passed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding creating a board committee on climate risk		8.2%	Failed
2020	Chevron Corporation	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on lobbying		28.6%	Failed
2020	Charter Communications	Stockholder proposal regarding the Chairman of the Board and CEO roles	The New York State Common Retirement Fund	23.5%	Failed
2020	CF Industries	Shareholder proposal regarding the right to act by written consent		41.8%	Failed
2020	Broadridge Financial Solutions	Stockholder Proposal on Political Disclosures		12.9%	Failed
2020	Booking Holdings	A non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the right of stockholders to act by written consent		49.2%	Failed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Additional Disclosure of Compensation Adjustments		25.7%	Failed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Mandatory Retention of Significant Stock by Executives		26.3%	Failed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Written Consent		44.2%	Failed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Policy Requiring Independent Board Chairman		52.9%	Passed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Additional Report on Lobbying Activities		32.5%	Failed
2020	Boeing	Shareholder Proposal - Disclosure of Director Skills, Ideological Perspectives, and Experience and Minimum Director Qualifications		13.2%	Failed
2020	Berkshire Hathaway	Proposal 4 – Shareholder proposal		12.3%	Failed
2020	Becton Dickinson	The shareholder proposal regarding special shareholder meetings failed to pass by the votes set forth in the table below		40.8%	Failed
2020	Baxter International	(e) By the following vote, stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal relating to the right to act by written consent		38.6%	Failed
2020	Baxter International	(d) By the following vote, stockholders approved the stockholder proposal relating to an independent board chairman		55%	Passed
2020	Axon Enterprise	The shareholder proposal to elect each director annually	James McRitchie	84.8%	Passed
2020	Automatic Data Processing	The stockholder proposal to prepare a report on employee representation on the Board of Directors	NorthStar Asset Management	6.9%	Failed

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Support is the share of votes cast for and against, so abstentions and broker non-votes are not counted in it. A proposal shows who asked for it where we have been able to tie the vote to a campaign on record; blank means we have not, not that nobody filed it.