Uber ceo Travis Kalanick withdraws from an economic advisory group to president Trump. He wrote to his staff that participation was never intended to support Trumps the policy, but that it is unfortunately exactly the way it is interpreted.
Activists against Trumps re-entry ban for seven muslim countries, had been putting pressure on the ceo of the taxi service. In addition, many drivers Uber immigrants.
Kalanick (40) writes in an e-mail to his staff that Trumps decree a lot of people in the US do evil. “Families are thereby separated from each other, people beaches abroad and there is a growing fear that the U.S. is not longer a place where immigrants are welcome.” Previously promised, the Uber-ceo all employees who suffer from the decree to compensate.
The economic council, where Kalanick now is gone, come tomorrow together. Also, among others, Elon Musk of Tesla and ceo’s of companies as large as General Motors, Walt Disney, JP Morgan Chase & Co, IBM, Pepsi, and Wal-Mart Stores are part of it.
there are other ways to let companies in the US see that they are against the re-entry ban. Microsoft has the White House made a proposal to grant exemptions. The tech company has said 76 employees that are directly affected by the re-entry ban. Microsoft proposes to except for people from the seven countries to work in the U.S., or if there is a question of urgent family circumstances. Microsoft advocates a more individual approach.
Among tech companies in the US is circulating a letter in which concerns are expressed about the consequences of the re-entry ban and the vluchtelingenstop. It would be the intention of the letter soon to publish.
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