While the nation was reeling from the mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, well-organized labor protests extended into the historically union-hostile Southern “right to work” states
and at stockholder meetings, where public pension funds took aim at anti-worker corporate leadership.
On May 25, in what New York City Comptroller Brad Lander called a “stinging rebuke” of Amazon’s corporate leadership, 27% of outside shares voted to reject the re-election of Amazon director Judith McGrath, chair of the company’s Leadership Development and Compensation Committee, which signed off on paying its top five executives $400 million last year, including $212 million in time-vested shares to CEO Andrew Jassy.
Last month, Lander, on behalf of the five New York City retirement systems — along with New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs — called on Amazon shareholders to…
