{"id":80425,"date":"2025-02-26T08:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=80425"},"modified":"2025-02-26T08:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T08:52:54","slug":"apple-against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/26\/apple-against-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple against the grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/25\/apple-dei-trump?utm_term=67bed0b669bc8d1ec66a51d38df406ba&amp;utm_campaign=BusinessToday&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=bustoday_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported in the Guardian this morning<\/a>, and shared at sufficient length as the issues are important:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">Apple\u00a0shareholders voted down an attempt to pressure the technology company into yielding to\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">A proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research \u2013 a self-described conservative thinktank \u2013 urged Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives currently in the\u00a0Trump administration\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s3ycb2\">After a brief presentation about the anti-DEI proposal,\u00a0Apple\u00a0announced shareholders had rejected it without disclosing the vote tally. The preliminary results will be outlined in a regulatory filing later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is very good news. That is not where I expected the fight back on diversity, equity and inclusion to begin, but I welcome the fact that it has.<\/p>\n<p>Now, more need to do the same. The fascists need to be opposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did not expect this, reported in the Guardian this morning, and shared at sufficient length as the issues are important: Apple\u00a0shareholders voted down an<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/02\/26\/apple-against-the-grain\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,147,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-inequality","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80426,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80425\/revisions\/80426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}