{"id":1575,"date":"2024-06-15T16:44:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T22:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2024-06-28T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T22:45:41","slug":"june-is-pride-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"June is Pride Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pride Month commemorates the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969 in New York City.&nbsp;Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month grew out of what was once called Gay Pride Day, originally on the last Sunday of June and has expanded to month-long activities throughout the United States, raising awareness and celebrating the members of the LGBTQ community who are activists, change-makers and role models for social justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pride at Work, an AFL-CIO constituency group, represents LGBTQ+ union members and their allies, organizing mutual support between the organized labor movement and the LGBTQ+ community to further social and economic justice. Interested union members can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/fundraising\/join-pride-at-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">join here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an allied union of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prideatwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pride at Work<\/a>, the Machinists Union believes LGBTQ+ rights are workers\u2019 rights and fights for those rights every day, in every territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bostock Supreme Court ruling of 2020 outlawed discrimination against LGBTQ+ workers across the United States. Previously, it had been legal to fire workers for being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in 28 states.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prideatwork.org\/action\/take-action\/tell-your-senators-to-support-the-equality-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tell your senators<\/a>&nbsp;to pass the Equality Act, which would expand federal LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections beyond employment to education, housing, public spaces, health care, federally-funded programs, credit and services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a Machinists Union member who is part of the LGBTQ+ community and would like to be featured during Pride Month, email your headshot and a brief quote to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:CommDept@iamaw.org\">CommDept@iamaw.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share and Follow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MachinistsUnion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_fb.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_twitter.png\" alt=\"Twitter\" title=\"Twitter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FranticHarbor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_youtube.png\" alt=\"YouTube\" title=\"YouTube\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/machinistsunion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_pinterest.png\" alt=\"Pinterest\" title=\"Pinterest\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/MachinistsUnion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goiam.org\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/icons_theme\/thin\/thin_instagram.png\" alt=\"Instagram\" title=\"Instagram\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Pride Month commemorates the Stonewall Uprising of June 1969 in New York City.&nbsp;Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) Pride Month grew out of what <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/?p=1575\" title=\"June is Pride Month\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iamaw2734.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}