Posts Tagged ‘Sweatshops’

Proxy Voting Guidelines - Social Issues

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT AND PREDATORY LENDING
We support resolutions that promote community reinvestment by financial institutions in low-income, often predominantly minority communities. We also support resolutions against predatory lending practices.
DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Burma
We support resolutions that seek to stop companies doing business with the Burmese military junta.
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
We support resolutions that ask companies to review the impact […]

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Tell the SEC to Allow Shareholder Resolutions on Sweatshops

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Tell the SEC to Allow Shareholder Resolutions on Sweatshops
Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) allowed Wal-Mart Stores to omit an anti-sweatshop resolution from its annual shareholder meeting.
The reason? Shareholder proponents had the audacity to make a reference in their resolution to paying a living wage, a key issue in the […]

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Sweatshops

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Eradicating Sweatshops
Over the past decade, the campaign to eradicate sweatshops has steadily grown. Anti-sweatshop groups have sprouted on dozens of college campuses. Trade unions, religious institutions, and other concerned investors have engaged numerous companies through dialogue and shareholder resolutions. Most consumers now say that they willing to pay more to avoid goods made in […]

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