Tag: lobbying

Shareholders Say Microsoft’s Business Practices are Undermining Privacy, Perpetuating Racism and Threatening Human Rights

June 17, 2021

Investors have filed three shareholder proposals with Microsoft Corp. seeking accountability for the ways in which the company’s lobbying practices, surveillance technologies, and contracts with ICE and other government agencies contradict the company’s own statements and values around racial justice and human rights.  The shareholder proposals highlight an apparent gap between Microsoft’s stated principles and […]

Article tags: Defense, Facial recognition, human rights, Human Rights Update, lobbying, Microsoft, privacy, racial justice, shareholder proposal, surveillance

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Press Release: Shareholders Win Unprecedented Support for Reforms at Tyson Foods

February 19, 2021

Originally published by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters at https://teamster.org/2021/02/shareholders-win-unprecedented-support-for-reforms-at-tyson-foods/ SHAREHOLDERS WIN UNPRECEDENTED SUPPORT FOR REFORMS AT TYSON FOODS 2021.02.19 Press Contact: Galen Munroe Phone: (202) 439-7427 Email: gmunroe@teamster.org More than 80 Percent of Outside Shareholders Back Teamsters, Oxfam America, ABHMS and NY State Proposals on Lobbying Disclosure, Human Rights Due Diligence, and Dual Class Stock Structure, Including […]

Article tags: ABHMS, corporate governance, Covid-19, human rights, human rights due diligence, Human Rights Updates, lobbying, poultry workers, Tyson, Tyson AGM, Tyson Foods, worker health and safety, workers' rights

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