The International Brotherhood of Teamsters is calling on Cardinal Health stockholders to relieve Chairman and CEO George Barrett of his chairman duties, and appoint an independent board chairman, saying Barrett has failed to "set the correct tone at the top," as the company has become more entangled in the US opioid epidemic.
In a proposal that will be presented to Cardinal Health shareholders at their stockholders meeting Nov. 8, the Teamsters labor union, which holds hundreds of shares of Cardinal stocks on behalf of its members' pension fund, said the current leadership "has proven inadequate in tackling Cardinal Health's role in fueling the opioid crisis
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