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The AFL-CIO has announced its support for gay families and its opposition to the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment.
In a unanimous resolution on this month, the AFL-CIO Executive Council declared that "the FMA and its state counterparts threaten the rights of working people by creating an environment across the nation that is hostile to the rights of domestic partners, regardless of their sexual orientation.
"Unions will have an increasingly difficult time making gains in domestic partner benefits, and preserving those benefits that they have already won at the table."
The Executive Council resolution noted, "The AFL-CIO recognizes that families come in all shapes and sizes." It added that for more than a generation, unions have negotiated domestic partner benefits, including health care, family and medical leave, and other benefits, for their members, both LGBT and straight.
The resolution also reiterated the AFL-CIO's "longstanding support for the full inclusion and equal rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people in the workplace and in society."
Pride at Work, the national organization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workers, praised the announcement.
In a statement Pride at Work co-presidents Nancy Wohlforth and Josh Cazares said, "We're delighted that the AFL-CIO has taken this stand.
"It's the right thing to do. It happened because of the strong leadership of President John Sweeney in bringing this resolution to the entire Executive Council and the hard work of Executive Vice-President Linda Chavez-Thompson."
It also won the laurels of the National Stonewall Democrats.
"Republican scare tactics have fueled dozens of discriminatory anti-marriage amendments in statehouses and in Congress," said Eric Stern, NSD Executive Director. "This historic resolution by the AFL-CIO recognizes that the implications of these amendments threaten long-standing employee benefits. Congressional Democrats, who have stood against the federal anti- marriage amendment, should now follow the lead of the AFL-CIO in opposing similarly destructive state amendments."
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