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A white California teacher says his union is discriminating against him
The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | May 31, 2024 | Bob Egelko

Posted on 06/01/2024 1:40:06 PM PDT by KingofZion

A white teacher in Sacramento County is suing his union for reserving one seat on its governing board for a non-white member — an issue of diversity versus discrimination that is percolating in courts across California.

Isaac Newman, a high school social science teacher, said he wanted to run for a newly created position on the Elk Grove Education Association last December, but was barred from applying because the union created it last year as a “BIPOC seat,” available only to members who are Black, Indigenous or other people of color.

“Union officials apparently believe that the best solution to America’s shameful history of discrimination is more discrimination,” Newman said in a statement announcing the suit, filed in federal court last week by the Fairness Center, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit that targets unions with legal actions.

One reason he wanted to join the board, the suit said, was to oppose “the (Elk Grove Unified School) District’s recent adoption of what he believes to be aggressive and unnecessary Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (‘DEI’) policies.”

*** It’s not the only case on the issue.

California passed a law in 2018 requiring governing boards of publicly traded corporations to have at least one woman on their board, and another law in 2020 requiring corporate boards to include members of marginalized races or ethnicities or the LGBTQ community.

***Both state and federal law “prohibit so-called ‘reverse discrimination,’ so it seems to me that they have a case,” said Reuel Schiller, a labor law professor at UC College of the Law in San Francisco. He said the laws apply to labor unions as well as the government.

***MORE

(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: dei; diversity
The path to eradicating DEI is long but good to see the train has left the station.
1 posted on 06/01/2024 1:40:06 PM PDT by KingofZion
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To: KingofZion

You are obsolete
Look at all the white men on the street


2 posted on 06/01/2024 1:46:00 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

Look at all the white men on the street...


And in advertising.


3 posted on 06/01/2024 1:49:25 PM PDT by Deepeasttx ( Sensitivity/diversity training, along with DEI are all un-walled reeducation camps....for now.)
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To: KingofZion

The path to eradicating DEI is long but good to see the train has left the station.
= = =

When the train left the station
It had two lights on behind
Yeah, when the train left the station
It had two lights on behind
Whoa, the blue light was my baby
And the red light was my mind


4 posted on 06/01/2024 1:51:11 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT.)
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To: KingofZion
What do you want to bet he was all RAH! RAH! over DEI?

D idn't

E arn

I t

DEI original "assigned" name: Affirmative action.

Another example of the left bastardising the language.

5 posted on 06/01/2024 2:23:03 PM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for Americans in a 4 year term than any President in your lifetime.)
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To: KingofZion

The wokests are building a world where white’s don’t exist. If they ever achieve it they will be 100% regretful.


6 posted on 06/01/2024 2:25:27 PM PDT by Bullish (...And just like that, I was dropped from the ping-list)
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To: Deepeasttx

And in advertising.“

?? Ad agencies are run by gays and radical feminists. That is why ads are the tip of the spear for the woke BS


7 posted on 06/01/2024 2:33:51 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Steely Tom; dfwgator

A good song without regard to the “profession”


8 posted on 06/01/2024 3:04:33 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Not a Glamor Profession.


9 posted on 06/01/2024 3:05:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

True

I had the DVD during if I still have it

https://youtu.be/Sz-AHdx1GmM?si=Xf6lmZsyah0QWpMP

That Gibson ES-335(I think) sounds awesome


10 posted on 06/01/2024 3:10:01 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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Could be a 345/355

Dang I just looked at the price


11 posted on 06/01/2024 3:15:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dfwgator

Around 2002-2004 can’t be sure


12 posted on 06/01/2024 3:16:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: KingofZion

How many colors of teachers do they have in Cauliphonya?


13 posted on 06/01/2024 3:27:10 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: KingofZion

Isaac Newman should have immediately identified as black...


14 posted on 06/01/2024 4:28:36 PM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe)
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To: KingofZion

Isaac Newman should have immediately identified as black...


15 posted on 06/01/2024 5:33:23 PM PDT by stylin19a (Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe)
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To: KingofZion

He’s a social study teacher.

Almost guaranteed he votes Rats. So he’s getting a taste of karma.

Still I’m glad he’s suing the union and anyone else involved in this travesty. Hopefully he’ll bankrupt them.


16 posted on 06/01/2024 6:20:09 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: KingofZion

17 posted on 06/01/2024 7:30:53 PM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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