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AFT Resolution

DISCRIMINATION BASED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION

WHEREAS, contract language prohibits discrimination in general; and

WHEREAS, contract language also lists specific grounds upon which an employee may not be subject to dis­crimination; and

WHEREAS, there is compelling evidence that employees are sometimes discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation:

RESOLVED, that union contract language should include sexual orientation among the list of reasons for which employees may not be subject to discrimination.

(1990)

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