We’re excited to invite you to "Resilience Through Responsibility: What Does Sound Corporate Governance Look Like in Uncertain Times?" This fireside chat with former SEC Commissioner Allison Herren Lee will take place on 10.8.26 at 5P at the Riverside Church in NYC. Tickets here: lnkd.in/gYtudAtg

Families are drowning in health care costs — rising premiums, sky-high hospital bills, and drug prices that force people to choose between care and rent. Congress has real, bipartisan solutions on the table right now. #LowerHealthCareCostsNow Take action here: ow.ly/aJA550Zp4fU

We're delighted to be able to share with you a timely new blog post about how gig workers recently organized to win national and international regulations that ensure all workers, regardless of classification, will have access to fundamental ILO principles and rights: www.iccr.org/global-platf...

At 11:30am ET today, Senator Chris Murphy will introduce the Senate companion to the Living Wage For All Act — the highest minimum wage ever introduced in U.S. history. It would set a $25 federal minimum wage for every worker and end every subminimum wage. Endorse here 👇 livingwageforall.org/endorse

In an SEC filing Warner Bros. Discovery revealed today that 84.3% of its shareholders voted against the company's advisory vote on compensation at it 06.09 AGM. This is the 2nd strong rebuke shareholders have aimed at the company’s compensation cmte in less than 3 months www.iccr.org/iccr-stateme...

In their recent MIT Technology Review piece, Susan Francois, CSJP and Séamus Finn, OMI reflect on the Pope’s new encyclical, #MagnificaHumanitas. tinyurl.com/4ue42bje #ArtificialIntelligence #MITTechReview @iasj.bsky.social @iccr.bsky.social

How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Despite a lack of regulation, we still have the ability to steer artificial intelligence in ways that can benefit our common humanity.

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A new OpEd from @susanfrancois.bsky.social & Fr. Seamus Finn in the MIT Technology Review outlines how Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas is a clarion call to act with courage and solidarity as we enter an age being transformed by artificial intelligence www.technologyreview.com/2026/05/29/1...

As demand for aluminum surges — driven by solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles — the communities living alongside its supply chain in Brazil's Pará State are paying the price. Check out this excellent new report from Transparentem for the full story:

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New report: communities in Brazil's Pará State living alongside bauxite operations—the raw material for aluminum—describe land and livelihood loss, pollution, and feeling consistently unheard. Companies in the supply chain claim otherwise. The gap is the story. transparentem.org/report/payin...

“Alone We Are Powerless; Together We Are Strong.” A recap from the 05.10-05.12 Global Platform Workers Solidarity Project convening in Nairobi. Read more: www.iccr.org/alone-we-are...

A new article from Data Syn looking ahead to June's ILO Conference where governments, employers, and worker representatives will come together to negotiate what could become the first global standard on decent work in the platform economy. datasyn.substack.com/p/from-recog...

If it looks like work, why isn’t it treated like work? Check out this new blog post from Pia Garavaglia which explores the impact of AI on work, and who counts as a 'worker' in today's economy: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/if-it-look...

ICCR welcomes Pope Leo’s new encyclical about Artificial Intelligence, Magnifica Humanitas, and is grateful for the work's moral clarity and analytical rigor. Read our reaction statement in full: 👇 www.iccr.org/iccr-stateme...

In a massive win for patients, today the Supreme Court denied petitions from 6 drugmakers — $AZN, $BMS, Janssen, $NVS, $NVO & Boehringer Ingelheim — leaving in place lower court rulings that rejected their challenges to the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program www.seattletimes.com/business/sup...

Supreme Court rejects appeals from drug manufacturers over Medicare price negotiations

The Supreme Court has rejected appeals from pharmaceutical companies that object to negotiating Medicare drug prices with the federal government.

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For Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol the pay ratio comparing him to median employee was 1,794. In addition to being paid more than 1,000 median employees each year at Starbucks, the same was true at his earlier roles at Chipotle and Yum Brands. He may be the only CEO consistently paid 1000x his employees

Microsoft is considering ditching its commitment to match its hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases by 2030. It's in a race with the other hyperscalers to power up energy-guzzling AI data centers as fast as possible, so apparently a livable climate is no longer a priority.

Amazon excluded multiple shareholder proposals from its proxy this year. In response a coalition of investors is calling for a "Vote NO" against Directors Rubinstein, Gorelick, Ng & Stonesifer. Discover what AMZN doesn’t want its investors to see here👇https://www.campaignsforthecommongood.org/amazon

Amazon Accountability — Campaigns for The Common Good

We believe the Amazon Board has failed to meaningfully engage shareholder proponents, respond constructively to votes, or refresh the committee overseeing its governance practices.

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In response to the disturbing news of the abrupt cancellation of this year's #RightsCon the @investforrights.bsky.social, an initiative of ICCR, issued the following statement: investorsforhumanrights.org/news/stateme...

Statement of Solidarity: RightsCon 2026 Cancellation | Investor Alliance for Human Rights

In response to the abrupt cancellation of RightsCon 2026 by the Zambian government, days before the gathering was scheduled to begin, the Investor Alliance for Human Rights issued the following statem...

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Join our training on May 6 at 1 ET: Protecting Our Water Resources, Air Quality, and Public Health from the Data Center Buildout. You’ll learn the strongest possible policy interventions to protect water, air, and public health from the data center buildout. bit.ly/policy-in-practice-training-series

Today we released "Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance" spotlighting the ways exec. comp trends are distorting the wider economy. Our guide provides concrete examples of how investors can help rein in excessive pay through their proxy voting & engagement www.iccr.org/iccr-issues-...

This thread is a powerful snapshot of executive compensation run amok. With millions of families across the US struggling with a spiking cost of living, this one executive will pocket the better part of a billion (with a b!) dollars for his role in a single merger.

Rosanna Landis Weaver@landisweaver.bsky.social · 4mo ago

David Zaslav's pay-out if the merger is approved w be approx $866 MILLION. Included in that will be a tax gross-up estimated at $355 milllion. In other words: shareholders will be paying his tax bill. Zaslav will not need to personally pay any taxes on most of what he makes. Comp nerd details below

We are pleased to announce the launch of "Spotlighting Governance Failures". This new ICCR resource provides an overview of companies planning to unilaterally omit resolutions from their proxies, incl. GEO, AbbVie, UnitedHealth, Chubb, BJ's Wholesale Club & others 👇 www.iccr.org/spotlighting...

Beth-ann Roth, Beth Young, Natalia Renta of @ourfinancialsecurity.org, Andrew Collier of @ceresorg.bsky.social, Tim Smith and Josh Zinner discuss recent changes at the SEC during the Policy Landscape session of the March 2026 ICCR conference

ICCR CEO Josh Zinner kicks off the March 2026 ICCR Conference

Now out! ICCR's 2026 Proxy Resolutions and Voting Guide. Inside you'll find ICCR member-sponsored proposals for 2026 corporate proxies along with a preliminary overview of the proxy season. www.iccr.org/reports/2026...

The lawsuit seeks to compel healthcare giant UHG to include a shareholder proposal on the consumer impacts of its aggressive acquisition & vertical integration strategies in its 2026 proxy materials www.iccr.org/faith-based-...

Today ICCR & @asyousow.bsky.social, repr. by @democracyforward.org, filed a lawsuit seeking to block a change by the SEC that encourages companies to exclude shareholder proposals from company proxy ballots. www.iccr.org/investor-rep...

ICCR member @nathancummings.bsky.social has settled its lawsuit against AXON which sought to improperly exclude NCF’s shareholder proposal requesting corporate political spending disclosure from its proxy. Axon has agreed to detailed annual pol. spending disclosure www.iccr.org/iccr-and-the...

In June representatives from 187 ILO Member States will gather at the International Labour Conference to discuss the precarious conditions faced by workers in the gig/platform economy. It is crucial that the Convention center strong worker protections for gig workers www.iccr.org/investors-ca...

Shareholders working on climate & other systemic risks have long relied on SEC's EDGAR site to publicize their proposals. Trump's SEC is now blocking all but the very largest shareholders from posting there. Thankfully @iccr.bsky.social is offering a new home for advocates to share & learn.

Palantir has blocked a proposal filed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace from its proxy ballot. The proposal focuses on use of Palantir software by ICE to track individuals for detention & deportation, incl. by using medical data to locate undocumented people 👇 www.csjp.org/news/2026/2/...