Apple’s shareholders call vote to abolish Dei programs, progressive donations

The Apple Board is asking shareholders to vote “no” about proposals to criticize the company’s contributions to progressive groups and ask the technological corporation to put an end to their Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.

Fox News Digital analyzed the “NOTICE OF 2025 Annual Shareholders Meeting” And they discovered that shareholders request that Apple consider abolishing their program of inclusion and diversity, policies, departments and objectives.

Proposal 6, initially proposed by the National Public Policy Research Center, suggests that these practices represent “obvious risks” and that the omission of the “equity” company of programs titles is “meaningless”, since still Express multiple explicit commitments with equity. “”

The shareholder also states that Apple’s policies are consistent with “if not more radical than” most of the Corporate Dei programs.

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The proposal highlights Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Zoom, only a handful of companies that have Dei’s efforts returned. The shareholder says that these programs pose “litigation, reputation and financial risks.”

The National Center for Public Policies Research had also disagreed with the “Apple Supplier Diversity Program”, which, according to them, chooses suppliers based on race and sex.

“With 80,000 employees, Apple probably has more than 50,000 that are potentially victims of this type of discrimination. If even a fraction of employee demand, and only some of them are successful, the cost for Apple could reach tens of thousands of thousands of Millions of dollars, “the proposal establishes.

Proposal 7, admitted by Wayne Frantzen, who inspires Investing LLC represents, criticized Apple’s contributions to progressive organizations.

“Shareholders request that Apple Inc. report to shareholders annually, at a reasonable cost and excluding confidential information, an analysis of how Apple Inc. contributions affect their risks related to discrimination against people based on their speech or exercise Religious “, the 2025 Annual Board of Shareholders Board.

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The proposal criticized Apple’s contributions to the South Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which according to shareholders use their “hate map” and “hate surveillance” to attack political and religious groups, as well as people . Some of his criticisms specifically add up to Moms for Liberty, the Family Research Center, Dr. Ben Carson and more.

“Groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center have been criticized throughout the political spectrum as” an operation of progressive partisan success “more interested in ‘Bludgeon (ING) conventional of politically conservative opponents’ than to defend civil rights,” Point out the shareholders proposal.

The proposal establishes that many companies, including John Deere, Jack Daniel’s, Harley-Davidson, Lowes, Home Depot, Ford and Coors, have already renamed charitable donations to represent “various opinions” in the hands of their clients and employees.

“Many have also explicitly cut the ties with the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of this effort. But Apple has supported many of these groups, including the SPLC and the Center for American Progress and is a Platinum Sponsor of HRC “The notice continues.

According to the shareholder, the HRC has directed coalitions to ask the main social media platforms to censor “hate and harassment speech” that includes many main opinions about parents’ rights and human sexuality.

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The HRC Corporate Equality Index also requires companies to provide “puberty blockers for young people” in their health plans.

In 2017, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, announced that the company donate $ 2 million A “Anti -od Groups”, including the SPLC.

Apple does not list SPLC or HRC on its website of members of the Public Policies/Commerce Association.

The 2024 edition of the Viewpoint Diversity Score Score found that 62% of qualified companies, including Apple Inc., support non -profit organizations that influence public policies by actively attacking freedom of expression and religious freedom.

Apple has been previously accused of promoting anti-book-speaking efforts.

In 2018, Buzzfeed initially reported That leadership of the company had instructed the creators of some Apple TV+ programs to avoid portraying China poorly.

Apple also rejected a Christian application in 2010 that opposed homosexual marriage research, abortion and embryonic stem cells.

Another application, “Parler”, was eliminated from Apple’s store in early 2021. Apple restored the application three months later, but said it was in the initial prohibition.

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

When comments were requested, Apple referred Fox News Digital to the company’s statements that oppose the two proposals in the meeting notes.

In these statements, Apple points out that the Board and Management maintain the active supervision of legal and regulatory risks and compliance with global businesses.

In the case of proposal 6, Apple states that it is “unnecessary” as the company “already has a well -established compliance program.” The proposal also inappropriately tries to restrict Apple’s ability to administer its ordinary commercial operations, people and equipment and commercial strategies.

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With regard to proposal 7, Apple said, in part, the following: “The proposal is unnecessary since Apple has a well -established corporate donations program that follows a strict internal government process and approval and the proposal tries to restrict inappropriately Apple’s ability to administer its own ordinary commercial operations and commercial strategies. “

SPLC and HRC did not return immediately Fox News Digital’s Request for comments.