[Imc-newsroom] GLBT Employees at GE try to organize

[Peter Miller]

This could possibly be a national headline for FSRN.

-Peter

>From: Patrick Finnessy <pkfinn at uic.edu>
>Delivered-To: mailing list uidpbenefits at yahoogroups.com
>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 11:17:47 -0500
>Subject: [uidpbenefits] Fwd: GL Student Group
>
> >
> >Hi Patrick,
> >It's me -- Donna Blaha, Prez of Glenview, IL Pflag.  I have a favor to 
> ask of
> >you.   I am an employee of General Electric.  We are trying to start up a
> >glbt employee organization which is tough, to say the least.  GE is a very
> >conservative company.  They employ over approx 300,000 people in the world.
> >
> >One of our strategies is to have the gay student groups at unversities where
> >GE recruits young talent be sure to visit GE when they are on campus
> >recruiting.  It's important that these young people ask GE's recruiters 
> if GE
> >has an active GL employee organization and if they offer domestic partner
> >benefits.    Would you pass this info on to the U of I (Chicago & Urbana) GL
> >student groups?   GE is obsessed with hiring bright young talent and if 
> young
> >people start questioning their policies toward GL employees  (who are very
> >closeted), maybe they'll realize that they are in the stone age.
> >
> >Thanks very much!
> >
> >Donna
>
>--
>
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