At Nike’s annual meeting on Sept. 12, shareholders rejected proposals calling for more detailed reporting on employee pay by race and gender and better tracking of forced labor and wage theft risks in the company’s supply chain. The wage gap proposal came from Arjuna Capital and was supported by proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services. The forced labor proposal was brought by Tulipshare, an activist shareholder platform that requested details about Nike’s factories’ possible exploitation of Uyghur minority workers in Xinjiang, China. Nike said it will announce the exact voting results in a proxy filing later this year.

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