International Business Times: As proxy season arrives, activist shareholders are challenging corporations on a range of labor practices

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Labor campaigns often conjure images of street protests and picket lines. Sometimes, they spill over into a decidedly less combative venue: the annual shareholder meeting. So-called activist shareholders have set forth roughly two dozen proposals calling on some of the country’s most profitable and powerful publicly traded corporations to make a slew of work-related reforms this year. They’re part of the growing batch of resolutions at corporations’ annual meetings that focus on environmental and social issues.

 

Read the full article at International Business Times.