Lee Conrad, the national coordinator for the Alliance@IBM, said his union is troubled by IBM's plans to hire overseas. "This raises serious concerns about the long-term job prospects for workers in the United States," he said in a statement. Alliance@IBM secretary James Mangi also submitted a proposal to review executive compensation to determine if the current executive pay structures "create an undue incentive to make short-sighted decisions." Also on the agenda at the meeting were proposals by shareholders to change IBM's pension plan to allow employees to "choose the promised pension and retirement medical insurance" offered before the company made changes to the plan in 1999. Other proposals called on IBM to adopt a "thorough set of human and labor rights standards for China" and to regularly disclose its political contributions. In the company's proxy statement, IBM rejected the shareholder proposals.