With the lack of trust in executive leadership, we have the ability to all come together to send a message through our votes. While each of us may only own so many shares of 3M stock, now is the best time to exercise the right as a shareholder and express your opinion:
https://investors.3m.com/ir-home/default.aspx
It will take a tremendous amount of individual shares to over take the likes of Vanguard, State Street, Blackrock and Schwab's voting power. They own most shares.
Better opportunity to stop subscribing to all the non-value added cr-p MR has pushed since 2018. That is what is tanking company. Stop this and you stop the investment firms above from burning company down.
To be direct, one would have a better chance of impacting a North Korean election than a 3M directorship election.
The by-laws are so stacked to prevent an competitive election that it is silly to call it one.