Insight
ICCR’s Advancing Worker Justice (AWJ) program brings shareholder advocates and allied worker-led and focused organizations together to advance dignity and justice for all working people. We seek to activate our investments, strategic partnerships, and movement-building strategies to influence workplace practices, build worker power, and achieve meaningful gains for workers’ rights in the U.S. and Canada. We approach this work for justice with an intersectional lens, centering the voices and experiences of frontline and essential workers, working people of color, workers with disabilities, migrant workers, women, and LGBTQIA+ workers.
Current Initiatives:
Through a combination of dialogue and the filing shareholder resolutions, ICCR’s members are pressing companies to advance dignity and justice for all working people.
Our Impact
How ICCR is achieving meaningful gains for workers’ rights in the U.S. and Canada.
Percent of shareholders voted in support of a Freedom of Association proposal at Starbucks
The amount of paid sick leave given to Norfolk Southern union workers, a first for major North American freight railroads
Percent of shareholders who voted in support of requesting an independent audit on worker health and safety at Dollar General
Advancing Worker Justice Staff Contacts
To learn more about our program, reach out to our staff:
Nadira Narine is primarily responsible for research and analysis, coordination and support of ICCR’s Advancing Worker Justice program area
Phone:212-870-2275
Email:nnarine@iccr.org
Gina is responsible for building investor capacity to engage companies around key issues impacting frontline workers in the U.S. and Canada.
Phone:212-870-2274
Email:gfalada@iccr.org
Advancing Worker Justice Resources
Publications, blogs, investor statements, comment letters, webinar recordings and press releases related to investor action on advancing worker justice.
ICCR’s guiding principle is that sustainable corporations must look beyond the next earnings report to account for the full impact of their businesses on society and the environment, and must view the well-being of all of their stakeholders ― including their workers and the communities where they operate ― as integral to their long-term success. […]
On November 15, 2023, the undersigned investors, representing $4.5 trillion in assets under management and advisement, call on U.S. companies to take steps towards the payment of a living wage to direct and contract workers, in line with international human rights standards. Long-term investments in the workforce are good for business, helping companies attract and […]
Analysis from the U.S. Department of Treasury