Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility

05/15/2024

01/31/2024

Join us on 2/15 at 11:30AM ET for a webinar discussing our 2024 Proxy Resolutions & Voting Guide and 300+ resolutions filed by ICCR members this proxy season. Learn about 2024 shareholder resolutions highlighting , conflict-affected and high-risk areas, , , and the right to . Register here: https://bit.ly/3S6G4f3

01/24/2024

Join us on 2/15 at 11:30AM ET for a webinar discussing our 2024 Proxy Resolutions & Voting Guide and 300+ resolutions filed by ICCR members this proxy season. This webinar features presentations on , , and the right to . Register here: https://bit.ly/3S6G4f3

07/13/2023

Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee have scheduled a series of hearings this month to discuss various aspects of ESG, often calling the movement "woke." Meanwhile, ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said, "Investors want this information because it's good for the performance of their investments, which is also good for society. That's as capitalist and as American as it gets."

Partisan differences were clear as lawmakers debated the merits of ESG, including discussion of the SEC's climate disclosure proposal.

06/06/2023

For years, Dollar General workers have complained of perpetually understaffed stores, in-store violence, including armed robbery and murder, the backbreaking pace of work, poverty wages and rat infestations. Now there is momentum for change after Dollar General investors voted last week to support a Domini Impact Investments proposal calling for a worker health and safety audit.

The decision follows extensive media coverage of the company's track record of repeated store safety violations.

06/06/2023

Ellen Kennedy discusses the multiplicity of ways that investors have used this powerful tool to advocate for changes they believe will enhance shareholder value, such as limiting CEO pay or improving product safety.

A look at what shareholder proposals are and the power they can have on a company.

06/01/2023

Yesterday, Step Up Louisana led Dollar General workers in a rally outside the company's AGM to demand safe working conditions in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. Inside, shareholders voted to approve a crucial worker safety resolution filed by Domini Impact Investments.

Workers in the US rural variety store giant Dollar General protest the company’s cost-cutting policies which has dubbed it a “Severe Violator” of worker safety

05/16/2023

In response to a growing crisis of worker health & safety among ride-hail companies, Achmea Investment Management has filed a shareholder proposal calling for a health & safety audit at $Uber. Reports of 6,000+ driver safety incidents in CA in 2021 alone shed light on the scope of the crisis.

https://bit.ly/3OhTkwW

05/03/2023

In this new article, looks at how shareholders are learning from past mistakes and switching up their tactics to tackle companies’ ESG shortcomings.

Shareholders deploy new tactics to force change at polluting companies this AGM season, according to Proxy Review

03/31/2023

ICCR's members are concerned about ‘patent thickets’, which consist of many ‘secondary patents covering the formulations, dosing or methods of using, administering or manufacturing a drug’ granted after the drug’s primary patent has been granted.

Shareholder proposals targeting major pharmaceutical companies and resolutions looking into corporate spending on political activiti