Tanuja Gupta, challenge supervisor at Google Information, founding father of Googlers for Ending Pressured Arbitration and the organiser of the Google Walkout, has resigned within the wake of Google Information cancelling a variety, fairness, and inclusion (DEI) speak on caste fairness.
Thenmozhi Soundararajan, govt director, Equality Labs, a US based mostly Dalit rights organisation, was slated to provide a chat in commemoration of the Dalit Historical past Month in April. Nonetheless, Google cancelled the speak a few days previous to the scheduled date.
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“The motion in direction of caste fairness is one rooted in love, empathy and justice.I can’t discover the phrases to precise simply how traumatic and discriminatory Google’s actions have been in direction of its staff and myself, as the corporate unlawfully cancelled a speak about caste fairness. Google should tackle the casteism inside its workforce that permits for these assaults to happen and proceed,” mentioned Soundararajan.
Gupta has launched an inside web site at go/caste-equity asking googlers to signal a petition to reinstate the speak. Greater than 400 Google staff rallied behind her trigger. In response, the Google administration launched an HR investigation and punitive corrective motion in opposition to Gupta resulting in her resignation.
“Google is woefully and willfully ill-equipped to take care of issues of caste discrimination, and that has led to the occasions and hurt you’ve examine right now. Of all of the organising I’ve accomplished at this firm, I believe many are stunned that combating for caste fairness was the lightning rod situation that took me down,” wrote Gupta, in her resignation electronic mail. “So my hope is that Googlers begin to perceive the magnitude of this situation, and the menace that their better understanding poses to the South Asians in energy.”
Within the wake of Gupta’s resignation, Equality Labs demanded Google Information so as to add caste as a protected class instantly.
Entry Tanuja Gupta’s good bye letter right here.
