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AFT Resolution

JOB DISCRIMINATION

WHEREAS, the American Federation of Teachers has in the past strongly supported laws against job discrimination because of race, color, sex, or national origin; and

WHEREAS, the 1973 AFT convention passed a resolution opposing punitive action against teachers because of acts committed in their private lives, unless such acts could be shown to affect fitness to teach; and

WHEREAS, both the American Federation of Teachers and the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, strongly opposed the 1978 California ballot initiative which would, if passed, have required that teachers be fired for engaging in homosexual activity in private; and

WHEREAS, no employee should be discriminated against because of their private sexual preference:

RESOLVED, that the American Federation of Teachers supports amendment of the federal laws relating to job discrimination to include discrimi­nation because of sexual preference.

(1979)

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