This asset manager has extensive experience in strategy, environmental and social issues, filing, soliciting, etc. They can provide shareholder dialogue and management services to the public interest, foundation and SRI communities. Con Hitchcock provides legal assistance to many socially-oriented shareholder activists. Bart Naylor , formerly head of the Teamsters Office of Corporate Affairs, also provides very helpful shareholder assistance and campaign support. Jonas Kron , and environmental attorney who assisted Maxxam shareholders with corporate governance resolutions, also can provide legal assistance with drafting and defending resolutions.
Some unions file shareholder resolutions, most often on corporate governance issues.
Also, a sizable union caucus is represented at the Council for Institutional Investors, an association of large investors such as public pension funds. Sometimes union and environmental groups' interests don't coincide, but forging more partnerships such as the 1999 labor-environmental alliance at Maxxam is a good way to build synergy. Social Investment Forum trade association of social investment funds and professionals. The SIF is a broad range of professionals and companies that operate SRI mutual funds or manage screened investments for institutional and individual investors.