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October 5, 2026 by Julie Wokaty The Impact of the Elimination of Rule 14a-8 on Institutions with Detailed Proxy Voting Policies

By Tim Smith, ICCR Senior Policy Director The SEC has advanced a proposal to eliminate the ability of shareowners to file shareholder proposals while continuing their traditional attacks on the proponents and the subject matter of the resolutions. None of the three Republican SEC Commissioners who voted for rescission have ever acknowledged examples of resolutions […]
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 October 5, 2026
September 30, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Investor Groups Backed by $8T in AUM Press Food & Bev Companies to Halt Litigation Delaying Public Health Laws

Call follows release of report detailing costs of extensive lawfare attacks on duly enacted public health policies. NEW YORK, NY, Wednesday, September 30, 2026 – The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and ShareAction, two responsible investment organizations coordinating large coalitions of investors, are calling on food and beverage corporations to end their litigious response […]
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  • Nutrition Insecurity
 September 30, 2026
September 25, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Swimming Together: Can Vessel Owners and Buyers Cooperate to Improve Conditions for Workers in Tuna Supply Chains?

By Chavi Keeney Nana, Director, Equitable Global Supply Chains, ICCR I recently returned from the third working group meeting for the Ethical Tuna Collaboration (ETC), which is designing a multistakeholder, market-based initiative to help address forced labor on tuna vessels. The ETC is convened by the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, supported philanthropically by Walmart. […]
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  • Equitable Global Supply Chains
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 September 25, 2026
September 18, 2026 by Julie Wokaty When Shareholders Warn and Boards Say No: Shareholder Proposals as an Early Warning System for Corporate Risk, and the Cost of Ignoring Them

By Tim Smith, Senior Policy Advisor Much has been written about the significance of the $5 billion historic penalty and privacy reforms imposed by the FTC on Meta, but press surrounding the incident rarely references the fact that this risk was something shareholders had already warned management about through shareholder filings. In 2018, shareholders filed […]
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 September 18, 2026
September 16, 2026 by Julie Wokaty ICCR Responds to the SEC’s Proposal to Rescind Rule 14a-8

The SEC has filed a proposal to rescind Rule 14a-8, which for more than eight decades has governed the filing of shareholder proposals in company annual meeting proxy statements. In response, Josh Zinner, CEO of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), issued the following statement on 9/16/2026: “This SEC’s proposal to rescind Rule 14a-8 […]
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 September 16, 2026
September 1, 2026 by Julie Wokaty ICCR’s Statement on the SEC Plan to Rescind the Shareholder Resolution Rule (14a-8)

The SEC has announced plans to rescind Rule 14a-8, which governs the submission of shareholder proposals, in an upcoming rulemaking.  In response, Josh Zinner, ICCR CEO, issued the following statement: “This SEC’s announcement of its intent to rescind the obligation of companies to include shareholder proposals in their proxy statements is an attack on the […]
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  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 September 1, 2026
August 25, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Broad Investor Coalition Calls on EEOC to Continue Collecting Key Workforce Demographic Data

NEW YORK, NY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026 – A coalition of more than 70 investors representing an estimated $1.002 trillion in AUM have signed onto an investor statement  calling for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to continue collecting key workforce demographic data, and for companies to continue collecting and share this data with investors, […]
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  • Advancing Worker Justice
  • Racial Equity
 August 25, 2026
July 20, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Our 2026 Annual Event – “Resilience Through Responsibility”

Join us for our 2026 Annual Event – “Resilience Through Responsibility: What Does Good Corporate Governance Look Like in Uncertain Times” October 8 at 5PM at Riverside Church in New York City, we invite you to join our Annual Event supporting the work and commitments to corporate responsibility. The evening will feature a fireside chat with corporate […]
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  • Shareholder Rights and SEC Policy
 July 20, 2026
June 25, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Global Platform Worker Power at the International Labour Conference

By Anousha P., Senior Program Associate, Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project (GPWSP) Across the world, a revolution has been unfolding in the world of work. Maybe you have noticed it when ordering food or hiring a nanny. If you use AI, you have benefited from the labor powering this revolution. This is platform (sometimes called […]
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 June 25, 2026
June 12, 2026 by Julie Wokaty Intense Shareholder Opposition to Excessive Executive Compensation at Warner Bros.

In a June 12, 2026 SEC filing Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) revealed that a resounding 84.3% of shareholders voted against the advisory vote on compensation (“say-on-pay”) at the company’s June 9 annual meeting. This is the second strong rebuke shareholders have aimed at the company’s compensation committee in less than three months. On April 23, […]
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 June 12, 2026

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