Shareholder resolutions are a facet of many corporate campaigns.
In a larger strategy involving grassroots activism, consumer pressure and other activity, shareholder resolutions help to bring added attention to sweatshop abuses and put added pressure on corporations. The organizations which now have been introducing Disney shareholder resolutions for three years have addressed that company's labor practices worldwide. Campaign for Labor Rights and a number of other organizations have specifically focused on Disney's labor practices in the company's Haitian clothing production operations. Campaign for Labor Rights stays in touch with Batay Ouvriye, the Haitian worker organization which has been involved in union organizing in the Megatex factory, a Disney licensee in Haiti. As You Sow's Corporate Accountability Program, which uses shareholder activism to promote positive social change, is working with a group of religious and socially concerned institutional shareholders including Domini Social Investments and members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility who are concerned about the Walt Disney Co.'s contract labor practices.