Trade Unions & LGBT Equality
Trade Unions have a significant role to play in promoting equality in work places. International and European Trade Unions have embraced LGBT equality in their policies and work programmes.
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ETUC Recommendations on LGBT equality and Trade Unions
ETUC actions and activities on promoting equal rights, respect and dignity for workers regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Adopted by the ETUC Executive Committee in Brussels on 4 December 2008
ETUC Extending Equality Report
Trade Unins Actions to organise and promote equal right, respect and dignity for workers regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
ETUC Extending Equality Brochure
Trade Unions in Action! Organising and promoting Equal Rights, Respect and Dignity for LGBT workers
EI/PSI Trade Unionists Together for LGBT Rights!
The manual covers discrimination based on sexual orientation (faced by lesbian, gay and bisexual workers) and discrimination based on gender identity (faced by transgender workers). Sexual orientation is distinct from and independent of gender identity – although one person can experience both forms of discrimination. But there
is a long tradition of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working together to tackle both forms of discrimination, including in many of our unions.
ETUC publishes a document for European trade unions calling for sexual orientation and gender identity inclusion
The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has just published ‘Extending Equality: trade union actions to organize promote equal rights, respect and dignity for workers regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity’.
