{"id":34371,"date":"2025-02-25T22:07:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/apple-shareholders-vote-against-ending-dei-program-amid-trump-crackdown\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T22:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T22:07:55","slug":"apple-shareholders-vote-against-ending-dei-program-amid-trump-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/apple-shareholders-vote-against-ending-dei-program-amid-trump-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple shareholders vote against ending DEI program amid Trump crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vote vindicates tech company\u2019s decision to uphold diversity initiatives as other firms give into pressure from president<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/apple\">Apple<\/a> shareholders voted down an attempt to pressure the technology company into yielding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a>\u2019s crosshairs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/feb\/25\/apple-dei-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vote vindicates tech company\u2019s decision to uphold diversity initiatives as other firms give into pressure from president Apple shareholders voted down an attempt to pressure the technology company into yielding to Donald Trump\u2019s push to scrub corporate programs designed to diversify its workforce. A proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research \u2013 &#8230; <a title=\"Apple shareholders vote against ending DEI program amid Trump crackdown\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/apple-shareholders-vote-against-ending-dei-program-amid-trump-crackdown\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Apple shareholders vote against ending DEI program amid Trump crackdown\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}