Dodgers DEI efforts are target of federal civil rights complaint
A legal group co-founded by Stephen Miller, deputy chief of staff of the White House and an architect of immigration policies of the Trump administration, filed this week a federal complaint on civil rights against the Dodgers, accusing the team of “engaging in illegal discrimination under the cover of diversity, equity and inclusion”.
The trial, filed on Monday with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by America First Legal, was reported on Wednesday for the first time by athletics. The Dodgers refused to comment on the complaint, which also appointed their ownership group, Guggenheim Partners, and professional Dodgers groups for employees, such as Black Action Network and Women’s Opportunity Network.
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In a press release, America first said that the actions of Dodgers violated title VII of the 1964 civil rights law, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin.
The accusations come less than two weeks after the team said they refused to allow the federal immigration authorities to use the Dodger Stadium car parks as a staging area for immigration raids in southern California. A day later, Dodgers hired $ 1 million to help families affected by immigration raids.
American first claims that the defending champions of the World Series, who visited President Trump at the White House earlier this season, violated the law by sponsoring programs intended for women and people of color and by “[e]MBEDDING Diversity, equity and inclusion strategies ”in all aspects of the organization.
The group also underlines the biography of Mark Walter, the majority owner of the Dodgers and chief judge of the partners of Guggenheim, in which he calls Walter a “defender of social justice”.
The Dodgers and Guggenheim Partners are only the last organizations to find themselves in the reticle of the American American on their diversity efforts. The group continued business against IBM, the largest industrial research organization in the world, and Johnson & Johnson, a multinational pharmaceutical company, among others.
The America First complaint has focused strongly on a page on the Dodgers website which defines the team’s mission “to create a culture where various voices and experiences are valued”. The site describes efforts to recruit women and people of color, associate with community groups to support racial and social justice, and promote heritage events for staff and fans.
“The mission statement DEI indicates that the Dodgers incorporate Dei into its workplace in a quantifiable manner with identifiable objectives to achieve the success ”, which seems to imply to engage in illegal discriminatory hiring.
Pico California, one of the groups who called on dodgers to do more for immigrants, said complaints in a statement that the complaint is equivalent to reprisals.
“See America First Legal – The group of Stephen Miller – Attacking dodgers for the promotion of diversity is a frightening demonstration of power against inclusion. The Dodgers did what was good, refusing to leave the ice in their stadium and supporting the families of immigrants. Now they are faced with reprisals of an administration that wishes to punish the institutions that maintain the community network.
“At Pico California, we stand with those who choose courage rather than fear. This survey does not concern legal nuances – it is a question of what type of moral vision is punished and whose values are away. When the teams that raise communities are targeted, it is not compliance – it is control. ”
