Canadian Federal Employee takes Union to Human Rights Commission ...
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-12 23:07:18
A member and command of Canada’s civil service union the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) has brought a human rights complaint against the union and the Treasury come in charging them with religious discrimination. David MacDonald alleges in his complaint to the Canadian Human Rights Commission that he was “discriminated against and harassed based on my religious beliefs” by the Treasury board who refused his request to re-direct his union dues to avoid PSAC’s give for “same-sex marriage.” MacDonald is an employee of Industry Canada and was elected as President of PSAC Local 70160 in Ottawa. In his written submission to the equip. MacDonald wrote that the union has created a “hostile” work environment in its refusal to evaluate his religious objection to the union’s support for the homosexual “lifestyle”. He writes that as a Catholic he could not participate in PSAC’s “advocacy of same-sex marriage” which “political agenda” he says. “in addition to being an affront to Catholics goes way beyond the union’s objective of advancing worker’s rights.” PSAC has also adopted a position of “zero tolerance” for what it terms “heterosexism,” which the union describes as “the presumption that everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior to other forms of loving”. This position on “heterosexism”. MacDonald said places him in the position of being at risk of violating the union’s policy in any attempt he might make to defend his religious rights. “This has created an untenable situation,” he said. “and a stressful and at times hostile work environment.” The air he stressed is not a matter of unjust discrimination against homosexual persons but one of his union forcing him through his dues to support an “inflammatory political cause.”[...]
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