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Happy Wednesday! Shareholder meetings are providing activists an opportunity to push tech giants on issues including civil rights violations, hate speech and whistleblower protections. In other news, Amazon announced its intention to acquire MGM Studios in a move sure to heighten already elevated antitrust scrutiny against the e-commerce giant.
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PROXY BALLOT BATTLES: Tech giants are facing increasing pressure from activists to adopt proposals aimed at expanding whistleblower protections, investigating potential civil rights violations and curbing hate speech online.
Activist shareholders are pushing for the proposals to be adopted during this week’s annual meetings, the first to be held after a year that’s included nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, a deadly riot at the Capitol and challenging working conditions for many on-site workers in the tech industry.
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Monday, 24 May 2021, 12:00 pm
Independent commissioners have
given the green light for the company behind well-known Kiwi
brand Sleepyhead to develop a $1 billion manufacturing and
housing community on its 178-hectare rural site in Ohinewai,
north Waikato.
The proposed development by Comfort
Group, and its property arm Ambury Properties Ltd, will
include industrial, commercial, and residential zones. It
intends on developing a master planned mixed-use community
over the next 10 years with 1100 homes for up to 3,000
residents, and a new factory creating up to 2600 new
jobs.
The decision on the company’s rezoning
submission on the Proposed Waikato District Plan has been
under deliberation since hearings in September last year,
Press Release – Waikato District Council Waikato District Council has voted to establish Maaori wards for the 2022 and 2025 local authority elections. Mayor Allan Sanson says that todays historic decision builds on Waikato District Councils commitment to strengthening the Maaori voice …
Waikato District Council has voted to establish Maaori wards for the 2022 and 2025 local authority elections. Mayor Allan Sanson says that today’s historic decision builds on Waikato District Council’s commitment to strengthening the Maaori voice and role in Council decision making.
“In 2019 we created full-voting committee member roles called Maangai Maaori on our three principal standing committees. This has been hugely successful,” he says.
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 1:35 pm
Waikato District Council has voted to establish Maaori
wards for the 2022 and 2025 local authority elections. Mayor
Allan Sanson says that today’s historic decision builds on
Waikato District Council’s commitment to strengthening the
Maaori voice and role in Council decision
making.
“In 2019 we created full-voting committee
member roles called Maangai Maaori on our three principal
standing committees. This has been hugely successful,” he
says.
“Over recent years we have consistently built
stronger and closer working relationships with our Iwi
partners. This decision today for us, as a local authority
in the heart of the Kiingitanga, is simply the next logical