CORPORATE INTEGRITY PROJECT
NLPC promotes integrity in corporate governance, including honesty and fair play in relationships with shareholders, employees, business partners, and customers. In doing so, NLPC places special emphasis on the following:
- Asserting that the social responsibility of the corporation is to defend and advance the interests of the people who own the company, the shareholders. True responsibility is fidelity to one’s own mission, not someone else’s or someone else’s political agenda.
- Exposing the seeking of influence on public officials by corporations, which is the inevitable result of high levels of government spending and intervention in the marketplace.
- Combating practices that undermine the free enterprise system, including corporate giving to groups hostile to a free economy.
WATCH: NLPC Calls Out Harmful ‘Green’ Policies at Deere Annual Meeting
https://twitter.com/NLPC/status/1763184870568665596 On Wednesday, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Customer and Company Sustainability Congruency Report” proposal at Deere & Company‘s annual shareholder meeting, which would require the company to...
At Annual Meeting, NLPC Blasts Apple’s Facilitation of CCP’s Crackdowns
On Wednesday, National Legal and Policy Center presented a “Congruency Report on Privacy and Human Rights” proposal at Apple Inc‘s annual shareholder meeting, which would require the company to explain the incongruencies between its publicized human rights positions...
Morningstar Returns for More Distortive Reporting About NLPC’s Proposals
Two years ago NLPC sponsored at least two dozen shareholder proposals at major U.S.-based corporations, nearly all of which were neutral-sounding fare that addressed governance issues, like transparency in companies' charitable contributions and lobbying expenditures,...
VIDEO: NLPC Previews Shareholder Proposals at Apple, Deere Annual Meetings
Paul Chesser, director of the Corporate Integrity Project, previews NLPC's shareholder proposals he will present at the annual meetings for Apple and Deere on Wednesday, Feb. 28,...
SURVEY: Disney, Target, BlackRock Top List of ‘Most Woke’ Companies
The Lion, an online publication of the Herzog Foundation, reported yesterday about an annual survey conducted by the American Conservative Values ETF, in which it asks its investors to "nominate their top three most woke liberal S&P 500 companies," with the...
DAILY CALLER: Disney Board Wants to Avoid Accountability on ‘Gender Affirming’ Care
In an article published on Friday, The Daily Caller reported about NLPC's shareholder proposal that will be up for a vote at the Disney annual meeting on April 3. From the story: In Disney’s 2024 “Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders and Proxy Statement,” Disney...
JPMorgan, BlackRock, State Street to Pull Out of Climate Coalition
ESG is on its way out. JPMorgan Chase and State Street, two of the largest financial institutions in the world, recently announced their withdrawals from one of the largest investor coalitions on climate change. Per Reuters: The decisions are a blow to efforts to...
NLPC to Demand Apple Accountability over Human Rights at Annual Meeting
Ahead of Apple Inc.’s annual meeting on February 28, National Legal and Policy Center is highlighting a report it has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that explains how the iPhone maker’s claims about its respect for human rights fall far short of its...
FOX NEWS: ‘Look What’s Going On With Oreo Right Now’
Tim Cramer of Mosaic advertising appeared on Jesse Watters PrimeTime last night to discuss woke Corporate America and whether Bud Light should be given a "second chance" --- as recommended by former President Trump --- for its gender ideology advocacy after its sales...
VIDEO: NLPC Blasts Oreo for Gender Ideology Indoctrination of Kids
As Oreo prepares to make a splash with its first Super Bowl commercial in 10 years, National Legal and Policy Center today released a 30-second video that delivers stinging criticism of the cookie brand over its longtime partnership with PFLAG. The LGBTQ advocacy...
IT’S CONCLUSIVE: ‘ESG’ is Now a Dirty, Unacceptable Term
As has been increasingly reported lately, the term "ESG" (which stands for Environmental, Social and Governance) has suffered such an image turnaround from just two short years ago that its mention is now considered a pejorative. The latest example comes from a Yahoo!...
Peltz Picks Incumbents That He Wants Bounced from Disney’s Board
Last year activist investor Nelson Peltz started, then quickly and abruptly ended, a campaign to win himself a seat on the board of The Walt Disney Company. At last year's annual meeting for the company, National Legal and Policy Center, a shareholder in the...
UPDATE: (Not Altogether) Bad Week for Microsoft’s Meddlesome Hack Reid Hoffman
2nd UPDATE Jan. 27, 2024 evening: 15 Facts About E. Jean Carroll’s Allegations Against Trump the Media Don’t Want You to Know UPDATE Jan. 27, 2024: Fulfilling what Reid Hoffman felt was a good bet in backing E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against Donald Trump for alleged...
Oil & Gas Majors Should Cease C02 Politicking
In a commentary for Real Clear Markets, NLPC's Luke Perlot writes that ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips have capitulated to leftist pressure groups' vision for an "energy transition:" For example, ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips include greenhouse gas emissions reduction...
Exxon Sues Left-Wing Shareholders Who Oppose Hydrocarbons
Exxon Mobil is suing two left-wing shareholder activists to remove their proposal from its 2024 proxy materials. According to the Wall Street Journal: In a federal lawsuit filed in Texas on Sunday, the Houston-based oil giant said investment firms Arjuna...
Auto Executives Lose Faith in Electric Vehicles
Auto executives continue to back off their electric vehicle ambitions as demand lags expectations. According to a survey conducted by KPMG: Two years ago, executives said that EVs would account for 20 percent to 80 percent of new car sales by 2030. In the new survey,...
Al Gore OFF of Apple’s Board of Directors
Apple Inc. announced today that former Vice President Al Gore will not stand for reelection to the board of directors at the annual meeting in two months, attributing his departure to the company’s age limit for members. Ahead of last year’s annual meeting, National...
United Auto Workers: America’s New Socialist Vanguard?
These are heady times for the United Auto Workers. The Detroit-based union in September took a huge risk by launching targeted strikes against production facilities of Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler). But the more than six-week walkouts brought...
REUTERS: Early Wins for Conservative Shareholders (Including NLPC)
Writing for Reuters's weekly Sustainable Finance newsletter, reporter Ross Kerber noted some early wins for conservative shareholders who are pursuing accountability from Apple about its operations in China. From the article: The...resolution was brought by the...
Unfortunately for Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein Story is Not Going Away
On May 6, my microphone was cut and I was arrested at the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders’ meeting with Warren Buffett in the chair. My transgression? I uttered the name of Jeffrey Epstein while citing the reputational risk to the company posed by Buffett’s close...
NLPC Wins Again: Is Deere & Co. Trying to Destroy Its Customer Base?
In addition to the favorable decision earlier this week by the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding its shareholder proposal for Apple, National Legal and Policy Center also received similar good news last month about a proposal it submitted for consideration...