For Immediate Release – March 13, 2018
Contact: Jerame Davis – jdavis@prideatwork.org
Pride at Work Endorses the Equality Act
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative David Cicilline in the US House of Representatives and Senator Jeff Merkely in the US Senate reintroduced the Equality Act – a landmark bill that will add LGBTQ people to existing civil rights laws while also strengthening protections for all people, including women and people of color. Pride at Work Executive Director, Jerame Davis, issued the following…
For Immediate Release – January 22, 2018
Contact: Jerame Davis – jdavis@prideatwork.org
Pride at Work and Union Veterans Council React to Supreme Court Ruling on Transgender Military Ban
WASHINGTON – Today, the Supreme Court lifted injunctions on the discriminatory ban on military service by transgender people. The Court ruled it will allow the ban to temporarily be instated while the various cases work their way through the lower courts. While there is still one injunction in place, this move by…
For Immediate Release
January 15, 2019
Contact: Jerame Davis – jdavis@prideatwork.org
Pride at Work Reacts to New York Legislature Passage of LGBTQ Protections
Today, the New York Senate passed two pieces of legislation to protect LGBTQ people in the state. Once signed by Governor Cuomo, New York will become the 20th state in the US to ban discrimination against transgender Americans and the 15th state to ban so-called “ex-gay” conversion therapy. Pride at Work Executive Director, Jerame Davis, issued the…
For Immediate Release
October 22, 2018
Contact: Jerame Davis – jdavis@prideatwork.org
Pride at Work Stands Against Efforts to Erase Transgender Americans
Washington – Yesterday, the New York Times reported that the Trump Administration is seeking to narrow the definition of gender in an effort to undermine legal protections for transgender Americans. Pride at Work leadership issued the following statements in response:
Jerame Davis, Executive Director: “Trans people will not be erased by this administration or any other. You cannot define…
WHEREAS, Massachusetts voters will be voting in the first ever statewide ballot imitative to rescind current rights for transgender people to have protected access to public accommodations, including restaurants, bathrooms, stores, sports facilities, and other public spaces; and
WHEREAS, Pride at Work exists to defend the rights of all LGBTQIA workers and community; and
WHEREAS, in Houston, Texas, transgender people lost the right of protected access to public accommodations in a city-wide ballot initiative; and
WHEREAS, all transgender union members,…
WHEREAS, two gay men who work at Boston Logan Airport recently filed complaints of anti-gay discrimination after enduring months of homophobic harassment on the job; and
WHEREAS, their employer, Flight Services & Systems (FSS), took no known action to ensure the harassment stopped; and
WHEREAS, the Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs Logan Airport, prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender expression and sexual orientation; and
WHEREAS, the Massachusetts Port Authority’s operating agreement with FSS forbids discrimination on the basis of…
WHEREAS, human trafficking is a global phenomenon that traps millions in cycles of exploitation for sex or labor and is often called “modern slavery”; it is a direct affront to individual human rights and jeopardizes community health; and
WHEREAS, worldwide, human trafficking generates about $36 billion each year. About one of every four of those dollars circulates in the United States, where freedom is an inalienable right; and
WHEREAS, commercial sex trafficking includes “the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining…
WHEREAS, Pride at Work and its chapters recognize that our movement is strongest when we act in solidarity and firmly support the reality that “an injury to one is an injury to all”; and
WHEREAS, members of the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York have created the “Count Me In” campaign to energize the entire labor movement in support of the Trades in their battles with those particular segments of the New York City development community who…
WHEREAS, the current administration has proposed deep cuts to key civil rights office budgets, the withdrawal of numerous important civil and human rights policies, and the appointment of officials who appear bent on retreating from statutory civil and human rights agency priorities; and
WHEREAS, extending equal opportunity in education, employment, and housing; protecting the right to vote; reducing hate violence and racial disparities in the criminal justice system; preventing discrimination in healthcare; and advancing economic security are not only legal…
WHEREAS, the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act of 2014 required that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with State and public water systems (PWS), notify and provide information to homes and communities once the EPA receives drinking water data that indicates a household has drinking water levels above the EPA’s lead action level (0.015 mg/L); and
WHEREAS, rather than enforce this responsibility, current EPA leadership has chosen to rewrite the regulations to return older, less rigorous oversight,…