Apple shareholders call voting to abolish dei programs, progressive donations

The Apple Committee asks for shareholders to vote “no” about proposals that criticize the contributions of companies to progressive groups and invite the Tech Corporation to end their Diversity, equality and inclusion (Dei) programs.

Fox News Digital analyzed “Annual Division Match of Dental Staters 2025.” And they have found that shareholders ask Apple to consider the abolition of their program of including and diversity, politics, departments and goals.

Proposal 6, which initially proposed the National Public Policy Research Center, suggests that these practices are “obvious risks” and that the omission of the company “Capital” from the title of “Nonsense” program is still expressing multiple expressions of “capital.”

The shareholder also claims that Apple’s policies are in line with “if not more radical than” most corporate Dei programs.

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The proposal highlights alphabet, meta, Microsoft and Zoom, only a few companies that have Valid efforts dei. The shareholder says these programs represent “litigation, reputational and financial risk”.

The National Public Policy Research Center also dealt with Apple’s “supplier diversity” program, which, they argue, chooses suppliers based on race and sex.

“With 80,000 employees, Apple probably has over 50,000 who are potentially victims of this type of discrimination. If even just a part of an employee, a lawsuit, and only some of them are shown successful, the Apple cost could reach tens of billions of dollars,” the proposal said.

The proposal 7, which was entered by Wayne Francezen, who inspires an investing LLC, criticized Apple’s contributions to progressive organizations.

“Shareholders ask that Apple Inc. reports on shareholders a year, with reasonable costs and excluding confidential information, analysis that Apple Inc contributes to its risks associated with discrimination against individuals on the basis of their speech or religious exercise,” a notice of this 2025 annual set the state of shareholders.

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The proposal criticized Apple’s contributions to the southern poverty center (SPLC), of which shareholders say that he uses his “hatred card” and “Hate guard” to target political and religious groups, as well as individuals. Some of their criticisms are especially aiming for Moms for Liberty, a family research center, Dr. Ben Carson and more.

“Groups like the southern poverty center criticized throughout the political spectrum as a” partisan progressive hit “More interested in” fornication[ing] The main political conservative opponents “than support civil rights,” notes the shareholder’s proposal.

The proposal states that many companies, including John Deere, Jack Daniel, Harley-Davidson, Lowes, Home Depot, Ford and Coors, have already diverted a charity to represent “diverse views” by their customers and employees.

“Many have also explicitly interrupted the ties with the human rights campaign (HRC) as part of this effort. But Apple supported many of these groups, including the SPLC and the U.S. Napredak and Platinum Center is a HRC sponsor,” the notice continues.

According to the shareholder, Hrc led the coalitions calling the main social media platforms to censorship “speech and hate hate” which includes many main views of parental rights and human sexuality.

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The Corporate Equality Index of the HRC also requires companies to provide “youth puberty blockages” in their health plans.

In 2017, the Apple Tim Cook CEO announced that the company will Donate $ 2 million to the “hate group”, including splc.

Apple does not cite SPLC or HRC on the public policy membership website.

The edition of business with a rating of diversity in 2024 found that 62% of companies achieved, including Apple Inc., supports non -profit organizations that affect public policy with active attack on freedom of speech and religious freedom.

Apple has previously been charged with pushing effort against free speech.

In 2018, Buzzfeed has initially reported This company leadership directed the creators of some Apple TV+ to avoid the presentation of China in poor light.

Apple also rejected the Christian application in 2010, which opposed the research of gay marriage, abortion and embryonic stem cells.

The second application, “Parler”, was dropped from the Apple Store in early 2021. Apple returned the application three months later, but said he was standing on the initial ban.

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The Apple Committee recommends that the shareholders vote “no” on proposals 6 and 7 during the annual shareholder meeting 2025 on February 25.

Asked for comment, Apple Fox News Digital referred to the statements of a company that opposed two proposals in the meeting notes.

In these statements, Apple notes that the Committee and the Management Board maintain active supervision of legal and regulatory risks and compliance for global business.

In the case of proposal 6, Apple claims that it is “unnecessary” because the company “already has a well -established compliance program”. The proposal is also inappropriately trying to limit Apple’s ability to manage his usual business, people and teams and business strategies.

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As for the proposal 7, Apple said partly: “The proposal is incomplete because Apple has a well -established corporate donation program that follows the strict internal management and approval procedure and attempted proposal to inappropriately limit Apple’s ability to manage your own usual business operations and business strategies .

SPLC and HRC did not go back immediately Fox News Digital’s Request for comment.