In San Francisco, some Oracle workers frustrated with their company as it has not signed a tech industry amicus brief opposing President Donald Trump's travel ban. It has started an online petition signing the enterprise software giant to join.
According to USA Today, Oracle employees Rachel Kane, Irene Scher and Lara Beers created a petition on coworker.org on Wednesday. It refers to Donald Trump's administration's order that halts Syrian refugees and immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering in the US.
The Oracle petition has got 1,600 online signs till now according to the organizers. Elizabeth Wood, 31 say's that "IBM should know better, and rethink its role in the world". She resigned in November as a senior content strategist in marketing at Big Blue after Rometty's letter. "Everyone is signing that anti-travel ban brief."
According to Indy Star, more than 120 tech companies including Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft have signed a legal brief opposing trump's order of barring immigrants from largely from Syrian Refugees and Muslim nations from entering the country. IBM based in Armonk, NY and Oracle based in Redwood City did not sign it.
Petition organizer Daniel Hanley-security software engineer at IBM in Atlanta plans to present the petition to IBM management soon. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick dropped out of the business advisory council last week after Uber drivers and customers protested Uber's involvement in the council.
Tesla Motors and SpaceX signed the amicus brief. Thus the political awakening is now taking place in Silicon Valley.
Thus it would be interesting to see how this petition turns out because a large number of protesters are standing against the travel ban. As large enterprises have signed the petition the possibilities are high that the results can come in favor. Maximum people of USA are supporting the tech companies' petition.
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