It seems the company’s stated values respect, accountability, commitment, and enabling — have become meaningless to affected communities because, in practice, communities still do not have meaningful participation in decisions that directly affect their lives.
For years, communities have repeatedly raised the same concerns, yet Sibanye-Stillwater continues to make decisions and respond to issues without properly involving the complainants themselves. Weiterlesen
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Re: Agenda item 3: Discharge of the Management Board
The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that the Board of Management of Brenntag SE be denied discharge.
Reason:
The Management Board is failing to fulfil its human rights and social responsibilities towards its own employees.
Labour rights: Contradiction between human rights obligations and practice
Brenntag’s conduct in its US business operations stands in stark contradiction to its own corporate guidelines and human rights declaration. There, under point 2 (‘Freedom of association, right to collective bargaining’), Brenntag expressly undertakes to respect the right of employees ‘to join or not to join a trade union or employee representative body of their choice without threat or intimidation’, as well as to recognise the right to collective bargaining and to ensure that employee representatives are neither disadvantaged nor favoured. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/brenntag/lockouts-contradict-human-rights-obligations-our-countermotion/
Brown Matloko at the 2026 BASF Annual General Meeting; his speech is delivered in German by Kristina Stier (Bread for the World)
Dear members of the Executive Board and Supervisory Board, Dear shareholders,
Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I would like to begin by saying that I have been attending BASF’s AGMs online over time. However, I felt it was important to be here in person today, because I have increasingly sensed that the voices and lived experiences of affected communities in your supply chains are not always fully heard.
I am speaking today not as an investor, but as someone from a mining-affected community, and from my own lived experience over the past 37 years. Weiterlesen
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Mannheim/Germany, Kyiv/Ukraine – On the occasion of the 2026 Annual General Meeting of BASF, the Ukrainian climate campaign Razom We Stand and the Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany call for compensation payments related to the expropriation of Wintershall Dea’s former Russian assets to be redirected to support Ukraine’s recovery and the victims of Russia’s ongoing brutal war of aggression against Ukraine.
BASF plans to distribute a dividend that is once again not covered by the company’s actual earnings or free cash flow. At the same time, BASF’s liquidity position was significantly supported by state-backed guarantee payments linked to Wintershall Dea’s former Russian business activities. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/press-release/basf-faces-calls-to-use-wintershall-dea-compensation-payments-for-ukraines-recovery-and-victims-of-war/
Agenda Item 3: Approval of the actions of the Management Board for the 2025 financial year
The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany requests that approval of the actions of the members of the Management Board be refused.
Rationale:
The Management Board continues to fall short of its human rights and environmental due diligence obligations. In particular, the continued marketing of the product Dormex, containing the active substance cyanamide—which is classified as probably carcinogenic and toxic to reproduction—poses significant and well-documented health risks, especially for agricultural workers.
Double standards without an exit strategy
Alzchem continues to pursue a business model based on the marketing of substances banned in the EU in other regions of the world, particularly in countries with insufficient regulatory frameworks and weak labour and environmental protection standards. Weiterlesen
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My name is Jeremy Kimbrell. I was a 25 Year employee at Mercedes Benz U S International when I led the UAW unionization drive in 2024 in Alabama. Workers had been unhappy for a long time in 2024 when we almost voted for unionization. Insufficient pay, unpleasant shifts, and constant fear of punishment or termination had made MBUSI an undesirable place to work. High turnover, and a reluctance by good, experienced workers to even consider employment there had become a risk to our future. Poor quality, potential product recalls, and personal safety concerns were factors. Workers believed by forming a union, they could make MBUSI a desirable, proud place to work again which would be good for workers, good for investors, and good for Mercedes. Weiterlesen
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Earlier Jeremy Kimbrell asked about the union busting firm RoadWarrior Productions, and I want to ask about a couple of other union busting firms. According to the LM-20 filed with the US Dept of Labor for 2024, you hired Ricardo Pasalagua on April 26th 2024 via your contract with the firm Labor Relations Specialists LLC to persuade employees how to vote in the UAW union election at Mercedes Benz U.S. International assembly plant in Alabama later that year. This document says you had a verbal agreement to pay him $200/hour plus a $59 per diem as well as expenses. Weiterlesen
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The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that the appropriation of profit proposed by the Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board be rejected.
Rationale:
The proposed dividend is too high and can be justified neither economically nor socially. BASF must invest significantly more in its own sites in order to create viable future prospects – particularly at the Ludwigshafen site, but also in Berlin and along the supply chains – to consistently reduce its dependence on increasingly expensive fossil energy sources and to be able to achieve its climate targets.
Instead of the proposed distribution of a dividend of almost €2 billion, a significantly smaller portion should be paid out, with the remaining amount used to strengthen the company’s financial base and to finance future-oriented investments. Weiterlesen
Permanent link to this article: https://www.kritischeaktionaere.de/en/basf-se/the-proposed-dividend-cuts-into-substance-financially-socially-and-ethically-our-countermotions/
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