Gay couple files discrimination suit against UPS

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=9636&sd=08/21/03

A gay man has sued United Parcel Service Inc., alleging that his longtime employer discriminated against him by rejecting his request for an out-of-state transfer as he sought to follow his partner to Chicago. Daniel Kline, 47, of San Francisco, sued Atlanta-based UPS in Alameda County, Calif., superior court on Tuesday, alleging that the company's Management Initiated Transfer Policy violates the Federal Employment and Housing Act's prohibitions on marital status discrimination. Kline and his partner, Frank Sories, 51, are seeking damages and a court declaration that the UPS policy is illegal. The suit says married UPS managers and supervisors have been granted transfers to other UPS offices under the company's policy. "If Daniel and Frank could be married, as they would like to do, this lawsuit wouldn't be necessary," said Kline's lawyer, Jon Davidson, of the New York-based Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. "UPS treated Daniel as if he and Frank were strangers."

some people (corporations) only listen when threatened or sued.

And yes, this is one more discrimination that we gay couples face everyday.

:grr:

http://www.365gay.com/NewsContent/081903upsSuit.htm

United Parcel Service moved quickly Tuesday to settle a discrimination suit by one of its gay employees and his partner.

Daniel Kline, who has worked for UPS for more than two decades, and his partner of 27 years, Frank Sories filed notice of the suit earlier in the day, contending the company illegally discriminates against its lesbian and gay employees by not including them in a corporate policy that lets married employees relocate to another city to avoid having their families broken apart when their loved ones have job transfers.

Wonder why they're only releasing this info now