Jonas Kron, Chief Advocacy Officer at Trillium Asset Management, which holds about $48 million of Starbucks shares, said Narasimhan has "room to maneuver where Schultz did not" because he "has not tied his own personal identity or his professional reputation to this hostility to unions the way Schultz has." Currently, Schultz's stance is "dividing the workforce," said Dieter Waizenegger, executive director at the SOC Investment Group, which works with union pensions that hold about $156.6 million of Starbucks shares. Kron and three other investors filed a shareholder proposal last month asking the Starbucks board to hire an independent third party to assess its adherence to labor standards in its 2020 Global Human Rights Statement.