As Harley, and other motorcycle companies, work to navigate the uncertain trade environment, it's also facing an internal power struggle. An investor group is trying to gain support from shareholders to remove Zeitz and two others from Harley-Davidson's Board of Directors at the company's annual shareholder meeting on May 14. H Partners Management, which owns around 9 percent of outstanding shares of the company, launched the campaign last month. They argue the company has underperformed under its current leadership. In addition to calling for the ousting of three board members, the investor group is calling for the board to immediately remove Zietz, who plans to retire this year, from his role as CEO. "While we hoped to work constructively and in a private manner to resolve these issues with the Board, these long-tenured directors made that impossible," H Partners said in an April 16 statement. One of H Partners principals, Jared Dourdeville, joined Harley's board in 2022.