Put an ENDA to Discrimination
Labor Notes staff
|  April 16, 2010

http://labornotes.org/2010/04/put-enda-discrimination

Many organizations are taking on the fight for ENDA. The website of Pride at Work, the AFL-CIO affiliate, has resources for LGBT workers and information on how unions can support ENDA.

Donna Cartwright, Pride at Work co-president, explains, "It is vital that Congress pass ENDA in its current, fully inclusive form." ENDA will help "those who are not protected by union contracts or state or local legislation" who are "extremely vulnerable to bias on the job."

The situation is dire for transgender people, 57 percent of whom have faced workplace discrimination. According to Cartwright, unemployment among transgender people is twice the national average, similar to the African American unemployment rate.