Google Employees Worldwide Stand Up Against Trump
With the ban on immigration after Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S President, there has been a constant uproar, not only among the public but the corporate sector as well. The new President's move has been disliked on a massive scale. In other news, The Googlers are raising their voices.
Employees of the Internet giant came out en masse Monday to protest President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration. The strike included more than 2,000 Google workers from campuses around the world. On Twitter, the hashtag #GooglersUnite was the battle cry.
The protest was a response to a presidential decree that Trump signed last Friday and which, among other things, temporarily banned the immigration of seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Google's chief executive, Sundar Pichai, who was born in India, and co-founder Sergey Brin, an immigrant, and refugee from Russia, joined the protest. Brin also went to a protest at the San Francisco airport on Saturday night.
"I'm glad to see that energy here today and throughout the world, to know that people are fighting for what is right, " Brin said on Monday, according to Forbes.
Several technology companies, including Facebook, Apple, and Airbnb, have spoken against the order, but the protest of Google seems to be the sharpest rebuke of Silicon Valley.
On Monday morning Google announced a crisis fund of US $ 4 million to support the causes of immigration. Last Friday, after the order was signed, Pichai sent a memorandum to employees affected by the ban to cut travel abroad and return to the United States.
While companies like Lyft or Viber are supporting the cause with donations and free calls, others like Uber have paid the piper for its connection with the administration of Trump, because of ts CEO and co - founder Travis Kalanick, belongs to the group of government economic advice. A source close to Google said the protest was organized by employees but supported by the company.
