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 1921 to 1980.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2020	AES Corporation	Non-binding Stockholder Proposal, to Adopt a By-Law to Subject Approval of any By-Law and Charter Amendments to a Stockholder Vote		17.5%	Failed
2020	Adobe Inc.	A stockholder proposal regarding median gender/racial pay equity		12.5%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to issue an annual Compensation Committee report on drug pricing, as follows		24.4%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to adopt a policy to require an independent chair, as follows		27.7%	Failed
2020	AbbVie	The stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to issue a lobbying report, as follows		29.7%	Failed
2020	3M	Proposal No.4 — The shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal on setting target amounts for CEO compensation.*		11.1%	Failed
2020	Yum! Brands	The shareholder proposal regarding issuance of annual reports on efforts to reduce deforestation		33.3%	Failed
2020	Starbucks Corporation	Shareholder Proposal Regarding EEO Policy Risk Report		1.5%	Failed
2020	Restaurant Brands International	Consider a shareholder proposal to develop a comprehensive policy on plastic pollution and sustainable packaging and issue a report to investors		9.4%	Failed
2020	Restaurant Brands International	Consider a shareholder proposal to report on Company’s minimum requirements and standards related to workforce practices		37.3%	Failed
2020	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding a report on sugar and public health was defeated	John Harrington	11.1%	Failed
2020	PepsiCo, Inc.	The shareholder proposal to reduce the ownership threshold to call special shareholder meetings was defeated		44.8%	Failed
2020	Mondelez International	Our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal to consider employee pay in setting chief executive officer pay, based on the following voting results		10%	Failed
2020	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal regarding allocation of corporate tax savings	Merck & Co	3.3%	Failed
2020	Merck & Co. Animal Health	The shareholder proposal concerning shareholders right to act by written consent		42.1%	Failed
2020	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting the Board issue a report on sugar and public health	John Harrington	9.4%	Failed
2020	McDonald's Corporation	The proposal regarding an advisory vote on a shareholder proposal requesting to change the thresholds to call special shareholders meetings		42.6%	Failed
2020	Loblaw Companies	Political Contributions Disclosure		32.3%	Failed
2020	Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings	The Company’s shareholders voted to approve a shareholder proposal asking the Board to amend the appropriate company governing documents to give shareholders of a combined ten percent or more of the Company’s common stock the power to call a special shareholder meeting		53.4%	Passed
2020	Kroger	Shareholder proposal to issue a report on human rights in operations and supply chain		44.7%	Failed
2020	Kroger	Shareholder proposal to issue a report assessing the environmental impacts of using unrecyclable packaging		38.4%	Failed
2020	Costco Wholesale Corporation	Shareholder Proposal regarding a director skills matrix and disclosure of board ideology		1.4%	Failed
2020	Bloomin' Brands	Stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal that the Board issue a report assessing how the Company could increase efforts to mitigate supply chain greenhouse gas emissions		26.5%	Failed
2020	Bloomin' Brands	The non-binding stockholder proposal that the Board take steps necessary to eliminate the classified Board structure		84.5%	Passed
2019	Wells Fargo	Shareholder Proposal – Report on Global Median Gender Pay Gap		22.6%	Failed
2019	Wells Fargo	Shareholder Proposal – Report on Incentive-Based Compensation and Risks of Material Losses	Arjuna Capital	21.6%	Failed
2019	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Based upon the following votes, our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting a report on our policies and activities with respect to lobbying	Friends Fiduciary Corporation	32.3%	Failed
2019	Vertex Pharmaceuticals	Based upon the following votes, our shareholders did not approve a shareholder proposal requesting annual reporting on the integration of risks related to drug pricing in our executive compensation program	Trinity Health	22.8%	Failed
2019	UnitedHealth Group	Shareholder proposal regarding amendment to proxy access bylaw	John Chevedden	26.7%	Failed
2019	Republic Services	The shareholder proposal regarding electoral contributions and expenditures		23.3%	Failed
2019	Sempra	Shareholder Proposal Requiring an Independent Board Chairman		42.8%	Failed
2019	Salesforce	Stockholder proposal regarding a “true diversity” board policy	The National Center for Public Policy Research	1.2%	Failed
2019	Northern Trust	The stockholder proposal regarding the right of stockholders to call a special meeting of the stockholders was defeated by the votes set forth in the table below		35%	Failed
2019	Northern Trust	The stockholder proposal regarding additional disclosure of political contributions was defeated by the votes set forth in the table below		25.5%	Failed
2019	Norfolk Southern	A shareholder proposal regarding simple majority vote, by the following count	John Chevedden	69.9%	Passed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Strategic Alternatives		0.7%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Workforce Diversity		0.5%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Median Gender Pay Gap		9.9%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding a Content Governance Report		5.7%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding True Diversity Board Policy		1%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	The stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal regarding an independent chair		24.5%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Chair		20%	Failed
2019	Meta Platforms	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Change in Stockholder Voting		24.5%	Failed
2019	Leidos	A stockholder proposal regarding simple majority vote		92.1%	Passed
2019	IBM	Stockholder Proposal to Have an Independent Board Chairman		40.5%	Failed
2019	IBM	Stockholder Proposal on the Right to Act by Written Consent	John Chevedden	41.9%	Failed
2019	Huntington Ingalls Industries	A stockholder proposal to permit an unlimited number of stockholders to aggregate their ownership of HII common stock to satisfy the ownership requirement under HII’s proxy access bylaw were as follows		31.5%	Failed
2019	Franklin Resources	This stockholder proposal		9.9%	Failed
2019	Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Proposal 4 The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal to provide for right to act by written consent, as set forth below	Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company	46.9%	Failed
2019	General Dynamics	Shareholder Proposal Regarding an Independent Board Chairman	John Chevedden	23.4%	Failed
2019	eBay Inc.	The Company’s stockholders did not approve the stockholder proposal requesting the Board of Directors require an independent chair		23.5%	Failed
2019	Cognizant	The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the Board adopt a policy and amend the Company's governing documents to require that the Chairman of the Board be an independent director was as follows		35.8%	Failed
2019	Cognizant	The vote with respect to the shareholder proposal requesting that the Company provide a report disclosing its political spending and related Company policies was as follows		53.6%	Passed
2019	Cisco	A shareholder proposal to have Cisco’s Board adopt a new policy to have an independent Board chairman		28.7%	Failed
2019	Capital One	Stockholder Proposal Requesting Stockholders’ Right to Act by Written Consent	John Chevedden	56.9%	Passed
2019	BNY Mellon	Stockholder proposal regarding a pay equity report		24.5%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Enhance Shareholder Proxy Access		26%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Right to Act by Written Consent		26.4%	Failed
2019	Bank of America	Stockholder Proposal - Report Concerning Gender Pay Equity		23%	Failed
2019	American International Group	Shareholder proposal calling for the Board to take steps to amend AIG’s By-laws to provide shareholders who hold at least 10 percent of AIG’s outstanding common stock the right to call special meetings		47.3%	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.