Links

What is Worker Capital?

• Working Capital: Institutional Investment Strategy, by the Trade Union Congress (TUC, UK).

• Workers’ capital and corporate social responsibility
  

• What is Capital Stewardship?, by the AFL-CIO (USA).

• The New Colossus: The New Politics of Capital, an article on the power of U.S. public sector pension funds by William Greider in The Nation, February 24, 2005

Trustee Education

Corporate Governance

• Global Unions Discussion Paper on Corporate Governance (Sept. 2005).Comments on this paper are welcome and will be published on the CWCintranet. Please e-mail comments to workersvoiceincg@workerscapital.org
• AFL-CIO - Eye on Corporate America
• SEEUROPE - Information about workers' participation at board level in the European Company (SE)
• Hans Böckler Foundation - Explaining the German model of co-determination
• Corporate Governance webpage of the ILO ACTRAV Global Union Research Network (GURN)

Shareholder Activism

General corporate governance web sites

• Paywatch.org - Easy access to information on U.S. executive pay and executive pay database.

• The Corporate Library - A central repository for research, study and critical thinking about the nature of the modern global corporation, with a special focus on corporate governance and the relationship between company management, their boards and their shareowners.

• Corpgov.net - Provides news, internet links, and a small reference library. Corporate Governance serves as a discussion forum and NETwork for stakeholders who believe active participation by shareholders in the governing of corporations will enhance their ability to create wealth.

• AFLCIO Proxy Vote information - Download recent publications and news by the AFL-CIO for pension fund trustees and capital stewardship practitioners.

Corporate Research

• Yahoo Finance - powerful finance portal containing company profiles, historical stock quotes, institutional ownership, financial data, and much more.

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Search EDGAR documents (e.g., 10-Ks, proxy statements) and non-EDGAR documents (e.g., no action letters, current rulemaking). These filings tell a lot. Experience will tell you what you want.

• The Shareholder Action Network is a project of the U.S. Social Investment Forum, and tracks shareholder resolutions and news on social issues.

• Shareholder Proposals - Online handbook with lots of practice pointers on manouvering the U.S. shareholder proposal process.

• Vcall offers live and archived streaming audio webcasts of official Investor Relations events, including quarterly earnings conference calls, analyst conferences, annual shareholder meetings, merger announcements, product announcements and press conferences.

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