AT&T settles New York City lawsuit, to let shareholders vote on diversity proposal

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK, Feb 25 (Reuters) - AT&T has agreed to settle a lawsuit by four New York City ‌public pension funds by letting shareholders vote on whether ‌it should disclose the breakdown of its 133,000-person workforce by race, ethnicity and gender. New ​York City Comptroller Mark Levine announced the settlement on Wednesday, eight days after the funds sued to block AT&T from soliciting shareholder proxies that would have excluded their diversity proposal from consideration at ‌its 2026 a ...