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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2,290 matching, showing 1861 to 1920.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
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
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal relating to policies on freedom of expression		40.6%	Failed
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal relating to sustainability and executive compensation		12.1%	Failed
2020	Apple Inc.	A shareholder proposal entitled “Shareholder Proxy Access Amendments”		31.1%	Failed
2020	Amgen	The stockholder proposal to require an independent board chair	United Church Funds	35%	Failed
2020	American Tower	Consideration of a stockholder proposal regarding the ownership threshold required to call a special meeting		43.1%	Failed
2020	American Tower	Consideration of a stockholder proposal to require periodic reports on political contributions and expenditures	John Chevedden	36.9%	Failed
2020	Altria	Shareholder Proposal - Report on the Company’s Underage Tobacco Prevention Policies		36.6%	Failed
2020	Altria	Shareholder Proposal - Disclosure of Lobbying Policies and Practices		31.2%	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.