ExxonMobil Votes Down Partner Benefits

Once again, ExxonMobil's shareholders have voted overwhelmingly to exclude LGBT employees from its partner benefits program. The Dallas Voice reports:

Only 22 percent of ExxonMobil shareholders voted in favor of adding the protections during today’s annual meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center in downtown Dallas. Last year 40 percent of shareholders voted in favor of the proposal. About two dozen LGBT protesters gathered outside the meeting with signs and bullhorns. Richard Miller of the Dallas Peace Center was inside the meeting voting shares for a friend from Berkeley, Calif. He spoke in favor of the proposal and said a number of other shareholders, including a member of the Rockefeller family, spoke on behalf of environmental justice and sustainability issues. ExxonMobil is a direct descendant of the John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Co.

Prior to their 1999 merger with Exxon, employees of Mobil DID have partner benefits.