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 1981 to 2040.

Year	Company	What was asked for	Asked for by	Support	Outcome
2019	Walmart	The advance-notice requirement of the Company’s bylaws, the Company’s shareholders voted upon and rejected a shareholder proposal that was raised from the floor of the annual Meeting which requested that the Nominating and Governance Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors consider hourly associates among the list of potential director candidates		0%	Failed
2019	Walmart	The Company’s shareholders voted upon and rejected a shareholder proposal requesting that the company take specific steps to strengthen the prevention of sexual harassment		10.8%	Failed
2019	Pfizer Inc.	The shareholder proposal regarding integrating drug pricing into executive compensation policies and programs		28.7%	Failed
2019	Eli Lilly	F)By the following vote, a shareholder proposal requesting a report regarding direct and indirect political contributions		26.5%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal regarding vote-counting practices for shareholder proposals		4.8%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on integrating certain metrics into executive compensation		19.1%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting changes to the Company’s gender pay reporting		26.8%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a board ideology disclosure policy		2.7%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on climate change topics		30.9%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on certain employment policies		33.3%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair policy		24.9%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on certain products		27.2%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a report on the impact of government use of certain technologies		28.2%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a ban on government use of certain technologies		2.5%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting a reduction in the ownership threshold for calling special shareholder meetings		35.4%	Failed
2019	Amazon.com Inc.	A shareholder proposal requesting an annual report on management of food waste		25.9%	Failed
2019	Waste Management	Stockholder proposal regarding a policy on accelerated vesting of equity awards in the event of a change in control	The International Brotherhood of Teamsters General Fund	38.3%	Failed
2019	Verisign	The Company’s stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal requesting that the Company's Board of Directors (the “Board”) adopt a policy that requires the Chair of the Board to be an independent member of the Board		24.7%	Failed
2019	United Rentals	Stockholder Proposal on Right to Act by Written Consent		50.4%	Passed
2019	United Airlines Holdings	The stockholder proposal regarding a report on lobbying spending	The Nathan Cummings Foundation	25.2%	Failed
2019	United Airlines Holdings	The stockholder proposal regarding the limitation on renomination of proxy access nominees		18.3%	Failed
2019	Travelers Companies (The)	Item 5 — Shareholder Proposal Relating to a Diversity Report, Including EEOC Data		50.9%	Passed
2019	TJX Companies	A shareholder proposal for a report on human rights risks		38.8%	Failed
2019	TJX Companies	A shareholder proposal for a report on prison labor		37.6%	Failed
2019	TJX Companies	A shareholder proposal for a report on compensation disparities based on race, gender, or ethnicity		18.4%	Failed
2019	Southwest Airlines	Proposal 5 – An advisory (non-binding) vote on a shareholder proposal to amend the Company’s proxy access bylaw provision		21.6%	Failed
2019	Skyworks Solutions	A non-binding stockholder proposal regarding simple majority voting		96.3%	Passed
2019	Simon Property Group	Proposal 5 — Shareholder Proposal Related to Political Contributions		37.1%	Failed
2019	Royal Caribbean Group	Shareholder Proposal Regarding Political Contributions Disclosure	The Comptroller of the State of New York	34.5%	Failed
2019	Ross Stores	The holders of the Company's common stock voted against the stockholder proposal on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals		40.9%	Failed
2019	Roper Technologies	Consideration of a shareholder proposal regarding disclosure of political contributions		43.1%	Failed
2019	Pinnacle West Capital	The shareholder proposal asking the Company to amend its governing documents to reduce the ownership threshold to 10 percent to call special shareholder meetings		46.4%	Failed
2019	PG&E Corporation	Shareholder proposal to improve shareholder proxy access (included as Item 6 in the proxy statement)		34.9%	Failed
2019	PG&E Corporation	Shareholder proposal regarding PG&E Corporation structure reform (included as Item 5 in the proxy statement)		13.5%	Failed
2019	PayPal	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Human and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights		7.4%	Failed
2019	PayPal	Stockholder Proposal Regarding Political Disclosure		8.4%	Failed
2019	Occidental Petroleum	The stockholder proposal requesting to lower the stock ownership threshold to call special stockholder meetings	William Steiner	99.5%	Passed
2019	Nucor	Stockholder proposal regarding political spending report		40.6%	Failed
2019	Nucor	Stockholder proposal regarding lobbying report		36.2%	Failed
2019	NRG Energy	(d) Proposal 4 – Stockholder proposal regarding disclosure of political expenditures	The Comptroller of the City of New York	45.4%	Failed
2019	Northrop Grumman	The shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal to provide for an independent chair		35.5%	Failed
2019	Northrop Grumman	The shareholders did not approve the shareholder proposal to provide for a report on management systems and processes for implementing the Company's human rights policy		31.1%	Failed
2019	NiSource	Stockholder Proposal Reducing the Threshold Stock Ownership Requirement for Stockholders to Call a Special Stockholder Meeting from 25% to 10%. The number of votes cast for and against this matter, as well as the number of abstentions, were as follows		37.2%	Failed
2019	Nasdaq, Inc.	Consider the Stockholder Proposal Entitled “Right to Act by Written Consent”		31.5%	Failed
2019	Motorola Solutions	A stockholder proposal on lobbying disclosure was defeated by the stockholders, by the votes set forth in the table below	Mercy Investment Services	37.6%	Failed
2019	Motorola Solutions	A stockholder proposal on an independent director with human rights expertise was defeated by the stockholders, by the votes set forth in the table below	The Episcopal Church	8.9%	Failed
2019	Microchip Technology	Stockholder proposal requesting our Board to report on our processes for identifying and analyzing human rights risks to workers in our operations and supply chain		51.3%	Passed
2019	Mastercard	The holders of Class A common stock did not approve the stockholder proposal on creation of a human rights committee		4.3%	Failed
2019	Mastercard	The holders of Class A common stock did not approve the stockholder proposal on gender pay gap		25.8%	Failed
2019	Marathon Petroleum	The shareholder proposal seeking an independent chairman policy	United Steelworkers	25.7%	Failed
2019	Marathon Petroleum	The shareholder proposal seeking a shareholder right to action by written consent		47.7%	Failed
2019	Lockheed Martin	Rejected a stockholder proposal requesting that the Board of Directors amend the proxy access bylaw	John Chevedden	26.2%	Failed
2019	Lennar	Stockholders did not approve a stockholder proposal regarding having directors elected by a majority of the votes cast in uncontested elections		44.1%	Failed
2019	Johnson & Johnson	Shareholder Proposal - Executive Compensation and Drug Pricing Risks		29.2%	Failed
2019	Johnson & Johnson	Shareholder Proposal - Clawback Disclosure		46.1%	Failed
2019	J.B. Hunt	A stockholder proposal requesting the Company to prepare and disclose a report of the Company's political contributions policy and political contributions made by the Company		31.7%	Failed
2019	Intuitive Surgical	A stockholder proposal regarding elimination of supermajority voting provisions		68.9%	Passed
2019	Intel	Stockholder Proposal Requesting an Annual Advisory Vote on Political Contributions		6%	Failed
2019	Intel	Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Report on the Risks Associated with Emerging Public Policies Addressing the Gender Pay Gap		30.3%	Failed
2019	Intel	Stockholder Proposal on Whether to Allow Stockholders to Act by Written Consent		40.9%	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.