BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that the Board of Directors issue a report, within one year, describing the potential to more rapidly reduce dependence on single use plastic packaging by expanding and supporting refillable bottle systems and infrastructure globally. The report should establish uniform companywide metrics for the company's public reporting on refillables use, and evaluate opportunities for setting aggressive refillables goals and deadlines.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board issue a report, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating and disclosing if and how the company has met the criteria of the Net Zero Indicator, including scope 3 use of product emissions, or whether it intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to such Indicator.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Costco adopt an enterprise wide policy to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics in its private label chicken supply chain (including routine use for disease prevention) with an exception for treatment and non-routine control of diagnosed illness.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Visa Inc (Visa) report to shareholders on the outcomes of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts by providing quantitative metrics and data on the recruitment, retention and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense and exclude proprietary information.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Sysco issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, disclosing short, medium, and long term greenhouse gas targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. This reporting should cover the Company’s full scope of operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that AutoZone, Inc. issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, that discloses short, medium, and long term GHG gas reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. Reporting should cover the company’s full range of operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the Board prepare a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, on the environmental and social benefits of making Company devices more easily repairable by consumers and independent repair shops.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) report to shareholders on the outcomes of the Company's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and provide quantitative metrics and data on the retention and promotion rates of employees by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Campbell Soup Company (Campbell’s) report to shareholders on the effectiveness of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The reporting should be done at reasonable expense, exclude proprietary information, and address outcomes, using quantitative metrics for recruitment, retention and promotion of employees, including data by gender, race, and ethnicity.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Western Digital issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, that discloses short, medium, and long term GHG gas reduction targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. Reporting should cover the company’s full range of operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Automatic Data Processing issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, that discloses short, medium, and long term greenhouse gas targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving them. This reporting should cover the company’s operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Cardinal Health issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, that discloses short, medium, and long term greenhouse gas targets aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of maintaining global temperature rise well below 2 degrees Celsius, and progress made in achieving these goals. This reporting should cover the company’s operational and product related emissions.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Cintas Corporation issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating whether and how the Company intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to Indicators 1 through 5 of the CA100+ Benchmark.
Read MoreBE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request that Paychex issue a report within a year, and annually thereafter, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating whether and how the Company intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to Indicators 1 through 5 of the Benchmark.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Conagra Brands issue a report, at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, explaining if and how the company is measuring the use, in its agricultural supply chains, of pesticides that cause harm to human health, pollinators, and the environment.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Worthington issue a report at least 120 days prior to the next annual meeting, at reasonable expense and excluding confidential information, evaluating whether and how the Company intends to revise its policies to be fully responsive to Indicators 1 through 5 of the Benchmark.
Read MoreResolved: The stockholders of FedEx request the preparation of a report, updated annually, disclosing:
1. Company policy and procedures governing lobbying, both direct and indirect, and lobbying communications.
2. Payments by FedEx used for (a) direct or indirect lobbying or (b) grassroots lobbying communications, in each case including the amount of the payment and the recipient.
3. FedEx’s membership in and payments to any tax-exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation.
4. Description of management’s and the Board’s decision-making process and oversight for making payments described in section 2 and 3 above.
For purposes of this proposal, a “grassroots lobbying communication” is a communication directed to the general public that: (a) refers to specific legislation or regulation, (b) reflects a view on the legislation or regulation, and (c) encourages the recipient of the communication to take action with respect to the legislation or regulation. “Indirect lobbying” is lobbying engaged in by a trade association or other organization of which FedEx is a member.
Both “direct and indirect lobbying” and “grassroots lobbying communications” include efforts at the local, state and federal levels. The report shall be presented to the Nominating & Governance Committee and posted on FedEx’s website.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that Nike Inc. (“Nike”) publish, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, annual reporting assessing the Company's diversity and inclusion efforts. At a minimum reporting should include:
the Board process for assessing the effectiveness of its diversity, equity, 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.
Resolved: Shareholders of Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) ask the Board of Directors to oversee the preparation of a public report on the impact of the use of mandatory arbitration on Tesla’s employees and workplace culture. The report should evaluate the impact of Tesla’s current use of arbitration on the prevalence of harassment and discrimination in its workplace and on employees’ ability to seek redress. The report should be prepared at reasonable cost and omit proprietary and personal information.
Read MoreResolved: Shareholders request that the board of directors issue a report by December 2021 on plastic packaging, estimating the amount of plastics released to the environment by our use of plastic packaging, from the manufacture of plastic source materials, through disposal or recycling, and describing any company strategies or goals to reduce the use of plastic packaging to reduce these impacts.
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