Press Releases

Today, updated Racial Justice and Workplace Equity Scorecards, based on ratings for the 3,000 largest publicly traded US companies on 64 key performance indicators, was released by As You Sow.

Today, shareholders of Deere & Co (NYSE:DE) sent a strong signal to the Board and management by voting nearly unanimously against a shareholder proposal from a conservative think-tank looking to undermine the company’s diversity and inclusion programs.

Today, shareholder representative organization As You Sow announced that it has withdrawn Proposal 05 from the proxy statement of Deere & Co (NYSE: DE), which sought greater transparency and disclosure of the Company’s efforts to build a productive and meritocratic workforce.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ruled against Deere & Co’s “no-action”  request to exclude a shareholder proposal filed by As You Sow on behalf of shareholder Amalgamated Bank, asking the company to address the effectiveness of the Company’s policies in creating a meritocratic workplace, especially in the face of Deere’s recent diversity policy rollbacks.

Today, over 20 shareholders with more than $63 billion in assets sent letters to Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), Mastercard (NYSE:MA), Meta (NASDAQ:META), and DoorDash (NASDAQ:DASH) asking that they publicly disassociate their brands from the Canada Strong & Free conference that they are currently sponsoring and publicly refute the divisiveness, homophobia, hate speech, and far-right activism embodied by Chris Rufo, who is a featured keynote speaker at the conference.

Today, Fox News (NASDAQ: FOX) asked the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to exclude an As You Sow shareholder proposal asking Fox to disclose the risks of inadequate differentiation between its on-air news and its opinion content. The proposal highlights the financial and reputational risks associated with viewers mistakenly assuming that Fox opinion personalities are journalists delivering fact-based information.

Today, Meta shareholders will vote on a proposal filed by shareholder representative As You Sow asking the company to assess the impact of reinstating “enhanced actions” put in place to protect the 2020 election and prohibiting political advertising on its platform prior to the 2024 election. The requested actions would reduce misinformation and hate speech on its platforms during another heated election cycle.

Results released late last week showed 25.7% of SkyWest ("the Company") shareholders supported an Amalgamated Bank proposal asking it to adopt a non-interference policy upholding the rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in its operations. The company faces allegations by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA that it has retaliated against employees seeking external union representation and that it funds an internal employee association, the SkyWest Inflight Association (SIA), intended to replace independent unionization.

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—MAY 1, 2024 —Today, Coca-Cola shareholders will vote on a proposal calling on the company to report known or potential risks to the company's employees caused by the decline in the quality of their medical care. With headquarters in Atlanta, Coca-Cola employees face the brunt of an existing healthcare crisis in Georgia as a result of legislative interferences in accessible healthcare, posing an immediate threat to their health and wellbeing. 

Shareholder representative As You Sow today released its 2024 “Pay for Climate Performance: Linking CEO Compensation to Emissions Reduction” report, grading 100 of the largest U.S. companies on their CEO climate-related pay incentives and their ability to drive greenhouse gas emission reductions. The report finds that while pay incentives can be powerful motivators, they need to be quantifiable, significant, and linked to robust climate goals.