December 12, 2014

Not from the Onion

Sylvia Lind, a long time employee at Major League Baseball headquaters, is suing her employer for two decades of discrimination. Her suit alleges race, gender, and age discrimination.:

Lind, the league’s director of baseball initiatives in its Office of the Commissioner, names as defendants the league, Commissioner Bud Selig and Hall of Famer Frank Robinson, who supervised her. Messages to the league were not immediately returned Thursday.

The lawsuit says Lind works in an industry dominated by white men and has been passed over for promotions and underpaid since 1995.

You have to love it when the first black manager in MLB history and a commissioner who is rightfully lauded for his efforts to improve minority hiring are sued for discrimination. Robinson is 79 and Selig 80, so it may be tough to show that MLB discriminates against old people as well.

Of course, if she wins her suit, it might mean that there’s some hypocrisy at MLB headquarters.

4 thoughts on “Not from the Onion

  1. pft

    First off, she is Hispanic and not African American, and there have been examples of discrimination from both sides toward each other (whites don’t hold a monopoly on discrimination), so Robinson should not get a pass there because he is African American.

    There are also many examples of older management and CEO’s discriminating against older staff. Management is concerned about productivity and cost control, if they feel younger staff are more productive and/or cheaper, they will discriminate, even if they are old as well.

    The sex discrimination is fairly clear cut, but if one tends to discriminate by sex, they may also be predisposed to discriminate for other reasons.

    So I don’t see a judge or jury having trouble with her including all 3 in her suit due to Robinsons race and Selig/Robinsons age

    In fact, with participation of African Americans in MLB on the field at 50 year lows and Hispanics at all time highs, it may be MLB is trying to compensate off the field to balance it out

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  2. Donald A. Coffin

    “…it might mean that there’s some hypocrisy at MLB headquarters…”

    Ya think? I would never have thought it possible (emoticon for tongue-in-cheek).

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