page_title: Pride at Work
section_title: Goals and program
hierarchical_section_title: Pride at Work / Goals and program
caption_attribution_description: English: Pride at Work members distribute literature and educate the public about union organizing campaigns affecting LGBTQ workers at the Capital Pride street festival on Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2009.
context_page_description: Pride at Work is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender group of labor union activists affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
context_section_description: Pride at Work exists to build tolerance and support for LGBT members in the workplace and in labor unions.
  The organization educates LGBT people about their rights as workers, the organized labor movement and the principles of trade union solidarity; encourages and assists LGBT workers to organize and to become active participants in the trade union movement; opposes discrimination on the job and in unions based on sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, religion or political views; encourages LGBT workers to register and vote to exercise their full rights and responsibilities of citizenship at the local, state and national levels; and educates the union movement and the public about the economic and social needs and interests of LGBT workers.
  PAW also helps educate union members on larger political questions of importance to the LGBT community, such as gender identity-anti-discrimination protections and marriage equality.
  Nationally, PAW led the struggle for domestic partnership benefits, an issue important to LGBT couples and non-married heterosexuals. PAW has also recently undertaken an initiative to advocate for health care benefits for the special needs of transgender workers.
caption: Pride at Work members distribute literature and educate the public about union organizing campaigns affecting LGBTQ workers at the Capital Pride street festival in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2009.
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