{"id":437,"date":"2007-07-18T20:08:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-18T20:08:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T20:08:16","slug":"ups-in-new-jersey-two-men-can-t-be-spouses-labor-group-condemns-denial-of-benefits-to-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2007\/07\/ups-in-new-jersey-two-men-can-t-be-spouses-labor-group-condemns-denial-of-benefits-to-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS in New Jersey: Two men can&#8217;t be &#8220;spouses&#8221;. Labor group condemns denial of benefits to employees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Parcel Service (UPS) has denied health benefits to the families of two Teamster-represented drivers in New Jersey who happen to be gay.  UPS claims that the drivers\u2019 partners are not \u201cspouses\u201d under the state&#8217;s civil union law.<\/p>\n<p>Now Governor Corzine is involved.  He wants UPS to offer gay employees the same benefits for their partners that married workers get.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Pride @ Work<\/cite>, the LGBT constituency group of the <cite>AFL-CIO<\/cite> has recently highlighted the denial of health benefits to same-sex partners of union-represented UPS employees in New Jersey, and said the primary responsibility lies with the New Jersey legislature, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateaction.org\/blog\/?p=419\" target=\"_blank\">failed to grant full marriage status to same-sex couples<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>The group says &#8220;such hairsplitting is <a href=\"http:\/\/prideatwork.org\/page.php?id=524\" target=_\"blank\">an unfortunate consequence of the legislature\u2019s failure to do the right thing<\/a> last year when the state Supreme Court ordered that same-sex couples be afforded all rights and responsibilities granted to heterosexual couples.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/487\" target=\"_blank\">UPS responded to the &#8220;hairsplitting&#8221; analogy<\/a>, by contacting a journalist and popular blogger.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Goldstein, Chair and Chief Executive of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenstateequality.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><cite>Garden State Equality<\/cite><\/a>, New Jersey\u2019s statewide LGBT rights group, said \u201cThe responsibility rests squarely on the legislature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/expressgaynews.com\/thelatest\/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=13482\" target=\"_blank\">Governor Corzine has sent a letter to UPS<\/a>, asking for respect of New Jersey&#8217;s civil unions law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Parcel Service (UPS) has denied health benefits to the families of two Teamster-represented drivers in New Jersey who happen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[395,375,462,564,543],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UPS in New Jersey: Two men can&#039;t be &quot;spouses&quot;. 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