Posts in Governance
AT&T Inc: Alignment of Stated Corporate Values with Political and Electioneering Expenditures

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that AT&T publish a report, at reasonable expense, analyzing the congruence of the Company’s political and electioneering expenditures during the preceding year against publicly stated company values and policies, listing and explaining any instances of incongruent expenditures, and stating whether the Company has made, or plans to make, changes in contributions or communications to candidates as a result of identified incongruencies.

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AbbVie Inc: Alignment of Stated Corporate Values with Political and Electioneering Expenditures

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that AbbVie annually analyze and report, at reasonable expense, the congruence of its political, lobbying, and electioneering expenditures during the preceding year against its publicly stated company values and policies, listing and explaining instances of incongruent expenditures, and stating whether the identified incongruencies have or will lead to a change in future expenditures or contributions.

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Yelp Inc: Seeking a report on failures in content governance

Resolved: Shareholders request that the Board conduct a stakeholder harm assessment study related to misinformation and false postings on its platform. A report on the Board's determination of strategically appropriate next steps identified as a result of this study, prepared at reasonable cost and omitting confidential or proprietary information, should be publicly disclosed on Yelp’s website by the end of calendar year 2022.

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Comcast Corp: Report on Aligning Retirement Plan Options with Company Climate Goals

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, prepare a report reviewing the Company’s retirement plan options with the board’s assessment of how the Company’s current retirement plan options align with its climate action goals.

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Amazon.com Inc: Report on Aligning Retirement Plan Options with Company Climate Goals

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, prepare a report reviewing the Company’s retirement plan options with the board’s assessment of how the Company’s current retirement plan options align with its climate action goals.

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Meta Platforms Inc (formerly Facebook): Seeking a report on risks related to company failures in content governance

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary or legally privileged information, prepare a report analyzing why the enforcement of “Community Standards” as described in the “Transparency Center” has proven ineffective at controlling the dissemination of user content that contains or promotes hate speech, disinformation, or content that incites violence and/or harm to public health or personal safety.

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Facebook, Inc.: Report on problematic media content management

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board prepare a report to assess the benefits and drawbacks to our Company of maintaining or restoring the type of enhanced actions put in place during the 2020 election cycle to reduce the platform’s amplification of false and divisive information.

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BlackRock, Inc.: Implementation plan for new Business Roundtable "Purpose of a Corporation"

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request our Board prepare a report based on a review of the BRT Statement of the New Purpose of a Corporation, signed by our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and provide the board’s perspective regarding how our Company’s governance and management systems should be altered, if at all, to fully implement the New Statement of Purpose.

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AutoZone, Inc.: Human Capital Management Disclosures

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report to shareholders describing the company’s policies, performance, and improvement targets related to material human capital risks and opportunities, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, prepared in consideration of the metrics and guidelines set forth in the SASB Multiline and Specialty Retailers & Distributors standard’s provisions on workforce diversity and inclusion and labor practices requirements.

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McKesson: Implementation Plan for New Business Roundtable "Purpose of a Corporation"

WHEREAS: Our Company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Brian Tyler, in August 2019, signed the Business Roundtable (BRT) “Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation,” (Statement) committing our Company to serve all stakeholders including employees, customers, supply chain, communities where we operate, and shareholders. In addition, McKesson proclaims to adhere to the corporate principles “Integrity, Customer-First, Accountability, Respect and Excellence” (ICARE).

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Facebook: Independent Board Chairperson

BE IT RESOLVED:  Shareholders request the Board of Directors adopt as policy, and amend the bylaws as necessary, to require henceforth that the Chair of the Board of Directors, whenever possible, be an independent member of the Board. This independence policy shall apply prospectively so as not to violate any contractual obligations. If the Board determines that a Chair who was independent when selected is no longer independent, the Board shall select a new Chair who satisfies the requirements of the policy within a reasonable amount of time. Compliance with this policy is waived if no independent director is available and willing to serve as Chair.

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BlackRock: Implementation Plan for New Business Roundtable "Purpose of a Corporation"

BE IT RESOLVED:  Shareholders request that Morgan Stanley publish annually a report assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information.  At a minimum the report should include:

  • the process that the Board follows for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity and inclusion programs,

  • the Board’s assessment of program effectiveness, as reflected in any goals, metrics, and trends related to its promotion, recruitment and retention of protected classes of employees.

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Facebook: #RebootFacebook

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request management and the board ”Reboot Facebook,” by making the changes below by Labor Day 2020. Designating a specific date creates a symbolic “before and after;” Facebook 1.0 vs. Facebook 2.0. Actions include:

  1. Delete all images of child pornography and torture, remove all associated accounts, and work with law enforcement to bring abusers to justice;

  2. Delete all fake accounts and establish a verification system to improve expeditious removal;

  3. Delete all political ads containing lies and mistruths based on Facebook employee recommendations to avoid adverse impact on our political system;

  4. Publicly agree to a policy stating that Facebook will abide by campaign advertising rules like all U.S. broadcasters and end micro-targeting of groups smaller than 5,000 people;

  5. As a show of Goodwill and until the platform can be effectively monitored, disallow any political ads Labor Day through the 2020 election;

  6. Provide full transparency of the Reboot process including listing deleted political ads, Bots, fake accounts, fake news, deep fakes and accounts closed;

  7. Disclose budget committed to fix these issues to inform other platforms as a case study of best practices; and

  8. Establish systems to maintain all of the above going forward with public transparency.

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O'Reilly Automotive: Human Capital Management Disclosures

BE IT RESOLVED:  Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report to shareholders describing the company’s policies, performance, and improvement targets related to material human capital risks and opportunities by 180 days after the 2020 Annual Meeting, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information,  prepared in consideration of the metrics and  guidelines set forth in the SASB Multiline and Specialty Retailers & Distributors standard’s provisions on  workforce diversity and inclusion and labor practices requirements.

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