[Izikiel43]

> Because that's really the choice it has to make: do you fight for the interests of disabled workers, and female workers, and trans workers, and black workers, and immigrant workers? Or do you only fight for the interests of white male workers?

You fight for the interests of tech workers in this case, or truckers in a truckers union, so on and so forth.

Why are americans so obsessed to make everything about race?

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

[heavyset_go]

> 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...

[Izikiel43]

Then vote and change things through voting.

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

[palmotea]

> 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.

[heavyset_go]

Unions represent LGBT workers, of course they advocate on behalf of their members. It's quite literally why they exist.

Remember, unions are democratic organizations, they do what their members want. It turns out union members want comprehensive protections against discrimination in the workplace.

If the protection of workers' rights triggers someone, perhaps unions aren't for them and they'd be better off joining a club or something.

[danaris]

> Why are americans so obsessed to make everything about race?

Because the political party currently in power in our country is an actual, literal, (Christian) White Supremacist party.

They are deliberately rounding up people that look like they might be Hispanic (and various other non-white ethnicities), declaring them to be illegal immigrants regardless of their actual status, and deporting them or putting them in camps.