The Need for Union Domestic Partnership Benefits in Post-Marriage New York

Unions and employers need to continue providing domestic partner benefits to employees for whom marriage might not be the best option.

Pride in Our Union, a Labor Movement Handbook: Legal Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Workers & Building Solidarity with LGBT New Yorkers

Debuting in June 2009, this guide gives union leaders. staff and members the information they need about LGBT workplace and union issues and the law in New York—including sections on non-discrimination clauses, equal benefits, marriage recognition, policies for transgender workers, union committees, LGBT issue advocacy and solidarity with union campaigns. It has contract language, union resolutions, and resources for organizing and bargaining from a variety of unions including 1199SEIU, Bricklayers, OPEIU, RWDSU, UAW, UNITE HERE and the NYS AFL-CIO.

Pride in Our Union newsletter: A quarterly newsletter capturing union support, action and events that support equality and justice for LGBT New Yorkers and our families and ways in which the Pride Agenda works in solidarity with union campaigns across the board for social and economic justice and workers rights.

• Fall 2009
• Winter 2010
• Spring 2010
• Summer 2010