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Brian4Liberty
02-19-2020, 10:57 AM
Thousands of Oracle employees protest Larry Ellison's Trump campaign fundraiser (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/thousands-of-oracle-employees-protest-larry-ellisons-trump-campaign-fundraiser/ar-BB1089oA)


More than 2,300 Oracle employees have signed a petition against a fundraiser for President Trump's 2020 re-election campaign that's reportedly scheduled to be held on Wednesday at a Southern California property owned by founder and chairman Larry Ellison.

In the past few years, employees at Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce have spoken out against corporate practices they've disagreed with. Oracle has long been known as a technology supplier to the U.S. government; in a statement in September the company said the Central Intelligence Agency was the first customer to use the company's database software decades ago. Former CIA chief Leon Panetta has held a seat on Oracle's board since 2015, and in 2016 Oracle CEO Safra Catz joined President Trump's transition team.

Oracle sought a major contract to provide cloud computing resources to the Pentagon, and in 2018 Catz had dinner with Trump. In October Microsoft won the contract, known by its acronym JEDI.
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fedupinmo
02-19-2020, 01:04 PM
Will they be hiring next week? Asking for a friend... :D
Who the CEO supports is his business, not his employees'.

oyarde
02-19-2020, 01:16 PM
Employees do what they are told or work elsewhere .

timosman
02-19-2020, 01:40 PM
Larry should do a better job of explaining what percentage of the company business comes from the US government. The worker bees think they are working for Tesla. :tears:

enhanced_deficit
02-19-2020, 01:54 PM
AT least he's consistent and stands up for his convictions.


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