California University Board unanimously votes to recognise protection from caste discrimination
The California State University system’s board of trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to ratify a collective bargaining agreement with its faculty union that adds caste to the list of categories that are protected against discrimination. The move comes after a few hundred individuals allied with trade coalitions and rights groups as well as faculty wrote in support of the move, which was opposed by a smaller group of eighty-plus faculty that said it would target Indian and South Asian origin individuals for special scrutiny. Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Executive Director of Equality Labs, a Dalit rights organisation that works for institutional recognition of caste discrimination, said that the “ undemocratic efforts of opponents who are opposed to caste equity” could not derail things - a reference to the opposition from a faculty group that opposed the change. Among those who sent letters and statements of support for the inclusion of caste in the Cal State CBA were the California Trade Justice Coalition - an alliance of unions and rights groups and APALA AFL-CIO, an Asian American workers alliance affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the country’s largest federation of unions.
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