I made a big deal about Microsoft suspending its political giving as a victory for Microsoft employees back in June, but they have quietly restarted it. I'll go through the October filing and then talk about what happened in June, and what employees can do now.
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The original reason that Microsoft suspended its PAC giving was because its hypocrisy over DACA had become untenable.
@BradSmi was trumpeting his support for DACA employees on Twitter while the company wrote checks to get them deported. I wrote it up here: https://idlewords.com/2019/07/microsoft_s_hypocrisy_on_daca.htm …Show this thread -
In the memo announcing its suspension of the PAC (https://idlewords.com/microsoft_pac_statement.html …), Microsoft promised to create "new advisory councils based on Employee Resource Groups and geographies to increase dialogue and transparency." It's now up to employees to decide if that promise was kept
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Microsoft employees came together over two years in a spirited defunding campaign to get this PAC shut down the first time. I have faith that they're not going to leave this return of the zombie PAC without a response. We all know what to do with zombies
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@marypcbuk for correctly anticipating that this is what Microsoft would do, down to the month!)Show this thread
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