...[A] new report provides evidence that LGBT workers still face widespread bias. “A Broken Bargain: Unchecked Discrimination Against LGBT Workers” synthesizes a variety of research to document that LGBT Americans still face bias in hiring, unfair firing, and on-the-job inequality, including wage disparities... ExxonMobil shareholders, at their annual meeting today in Dallas, voted down a resolution calling on the company to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity…This is the 15th consecutive year such a resolution has failed. Mobil once had a policy banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, but that was repealed when it merged with Exxon in 1999. Since then, activists have submitted a shareholder resolution every year calling on the company to adopt an inclusive antidiscrimination policy…[refers to BP and Chevron]