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heavyset_golast Friday at 9:38 PM2 repliesview on HN

> If a union member is facing discrimination at work, get them a lawyer for it.

As part of the policy of the current administration, the EEOC has dropped all cases related to LGBT discrimination in the hiring and the workplace[1] and is refusing to take new cases.

If you focused any effort on addressing that, I suspect someone who isn't even in the union would come out of the woodwork to say "that union shouldn't be addressing policy like that, it's divisive and what about everyone else?"

Union workers' rights and interests are impacted by policy that discriminates, pretending that isn't so doesn't get us anywhere.

[1] https://www.equalrights.org/news/eeocs-decision-to-drop-lgbt...


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Izikiel43last Friday at 9:54 PM

Then vote and change things through voting.

Also, title ix still exists, civil court should take the case.

palmotealast Friday at 11:20 PM

> As part of the policy of the current administration, the EEOC has dropped all cases related to LGBT discrimination in the hiring and the workplace[1] and is refusing to take new cases.

So? Not every organization has to take on every issue. And the idea that they must has been enormously damaging and kept us from having a lot of nice things.

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