The spirit of antichrist is very busy.
Posted on 02/18/2024 10:26:07 AM PST by daniel1212
As we all have seen, corporate America has become militantly pro-LGBT and anti-Christian over the past few decades....
James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He has received some of UPS’s highest awards for safety and loyalty. He is a driver of a large UPS “feeder truck.” He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. ..
During the celebration of Gay Pride Month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGBT movement by broadcasting images on all its large hanging TV monitors in various workstations, on its social media sites, and on the employee training computers throughout the building.
If employees wanted to check on their benefits, paycheck, retirement funds, and other HR-related information, they had no choice but to navigate through the images promoting LGBT pride.... [There are also “Zero Tolerance” postings in UPS buildings which state: “Don’t display offensive language, symbols or images on your personal belongings or on company property.]
UPS is heavily invested in “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” (DEI) throughout the company. It has created an internal Equity, Justice & Action Task Force to deal with “unconscious bias” among employees. ...
UPS’s charitable arm has funded Planned Parenthood in several states, numerous far-left churches (including a “gay” Catholic group), Black Lives Matter, the ACLU, SIECUS (which pushes radical sex ed in public schools), and other anti-Christian and anti-American causes.
UPS is also a partner of the World Economic Forum and agrees with its “climate crisis” outlook.
All of this reveals UPS management’s orchestration of a frighteningly hostile climate of discrimination against Christians, conservative Americans, and white males in general that everyone (except James) was afraid to address.,...
The company was clearly breaking its own rules, particularly during “Pride Month.” Someone needed the guts to test UPS’s obvious hypocrisy. James had had enough...
1. Contacting officials. As James told us, “To bring resolution to this with no further unpleasantries, I first tried to use UPS’s Open Door Policy and contacted UPS’s CEO, Carol Tomé, along with local Teamsters 402 General President Sean O’Brien about these issues.” But nothing came of that.
2. Filing grievances through the union. Since he was represented by the Teamsters Union Local 402, he filed four separate grievances through them, as laid out in the company’s collective bargaining agreement, directly addressing various aspects of the problem.
Unfortunately (as many of us know), the Teamsters long ago embraced the LGBT agenda and other leftist, anti-American ideologies. When the formal hearing for James’s grievances took place – with a room full of representatives from the UPS and the union – James was shocked. Not only did the union not advocate for him, but they treated him with hostility, as did the UPS representatives there. One union rep nastily said to James at the hearing, “If working at UPS was so bad, why continue to work there?” James lashed back at him. As he told us:
It got ugly real quick. I told him that I had a right to work in a hostile-free environment just as much as their beloved homosexual employees did. I told him that I have a right to work there and that I want to work in a place that is free from this hatred towards Christian employees...
Not surprisingly, James later received a letter from the union telling him that all of his grievances were denied.
But James really got their attention like no other employee had! He stood up and clearly presented his evidence for all the grievances, describing in detail what UPS was doing to its employees – to the stone faces of the union and company officials.
3. Formal NLRB complaint against the union. A few days after receiving the letter from the union denying his grievances, James filed a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the Teamsters Union. He cited the hostility towards him by his union at the hearing, and their inappropriate behavior which clearly showed that he was not being fairly represented. The NLRB acknowledged receiving the complaint but ultimately took no action, though surely the union was made aware of it.
4. Formal complaint filed with federal EEOC. The day after James filed the NLRB complaint, James filed a discrimination complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He cited Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bans religious discrimination in the workplace. He described how UPS is maintaining a hostile workplace by promoting the homosexual culture and images that mock the Christian faith – but denies equal time for Christian culture and imagery anywhere at the company. Similarly, the EEOC acknowledged receiving the complaint but took no action, though surely UPS was made aware of it.
Here’s the result … Moving a massive worldwide corporation like UPS is too big a task for one man. But James did make a difference. The website link to the disgusting anti-Christian LGBT merchandise and pride event calendar was taken down and has not re-appeared.
I hope that he makes millions.
The Sodomites are on a roll.
We need to stand up to them.
These are evil people promoting immoral buckets of bile. They should all be publicly mocked and shunned.
Except for bias against Christians.
The DemoMarxists have infested everything today haven't they. How are they doing this? Is it the universities? They hire these indoctrinated little sh--s as soon as they graduate and once in they start up with the agenda?
The driver upset about all the LGBT stuff in the workplace. I’d be upset too, very upset. But “offensive” is in the eye of the beholder. After all, some people get upset with seeing an American flag on the wall. Others get upset with seeing a “Merry Christmas” sign.
I hate to say it, but the UPS is a private company, on private property. So I doubt if the driver has a legal remedy here.
Private company or not, they have to uphold the law and the Constitution. - because the LGBT pervert stuff IS a form of religion being forced on us.
SMDH.
UPS is a public company beholding to the shareholders.
The only way to change UPS’ politics is for the majority of the shareholders to demand it
When any organization - private or otherwise - preaches and trains against sexual harassment, the main theme is to remove anything and everything creating a hostile work environment. What’s good for the goose and also good for the gander, and they ought to be held to account for playing favorites.
> Oh, please - there are laws that supposedly protect everyone in the workplace. <
Agreed. But there are also laws to protect the private property owner. So who should prevail? If the worker is being targeted or discriminated against because of his beliefs, then the worker should prevail. Otherwise, the property owner should prevail.
I am a fundamentalist Christian. If I were a business owner, I’d have evidence of that in my office, a cross on the wall. Guaranteed that would offend some people. Sorry, but too bad.
> What’s good for the goose and also good for the gander, and they ought to be held to account for playing favorites. <
I have noted elsewhere that property rights must be taken into account. But you are absolutely, 100% correct here.
A Christian complains, and he is ignored. But should a Muslim or atheist complain along the same lines, everyone rushes to accommodate the complainer.
“UPS is a private company, on private property. So I doubt if the driver has a legal remedy here.”
Private companies still have to abide by Federal Labor Laws. Let UPS tell an employee she can’t work because she’s pregnant. Or blatantly condone, or participate in, sexual harassment. Or pay $10 under minimum wage. They can’t get away with it.
What this guy did to protect himself is almost exactly what I did (different problem tho). Grievance, labor relations, EEOC, etc. They were all nails for my employment coffin at a class 1 railroad. Eventually losing my career due to stress from harassment. I can relate to this fellow for sure.
To the contrary, since the UPS "states that it supports the United Nations’ “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” which strictly guarantee “social and cultural freedom,” and the right to be treated “with dignity and without discrimination” regarding religion and sex," then UPS must act according to its premise.
Of course, when what is "offensive" is not based upon a common definitive source - which the Bible was at the least implicitly commonly held to be - but is subjectively defined and thus employs ambiguous language ("objectionable," 'bigoted," "hateful"), then either everything that one finds objectionable must be censored or else the protection is rightly manifest as being a double standard.
In practice, as with forums, what qualifies as allowed or forbidden is based upon the "sole discretion" of the autocratic judges of such.
In this case, UPS is practicing the promotion of a form of ideology in which protected status in civil rights is based upon how one feels, and with that being a basis for morality and gender, and that this fosters a healthy society. Which is simply contrary to reality. If a consensual Christian practice such as praying together and taking part in the Lord's supper was responsible for over 80% of new HIV cases among men, and greatly a increased incidence of other infectious diseases, and of premature death, including by suicide, and primarily for almost 800,000 American deaths, what you think the reaction would be to it?
The problem then is with SCOTUS affirming LGBTQAI+++. If this was 1940 German, by your reasoning, if the company promoted the gassing of Jews then being a private company, on private property, then since “offensive” is in the eye of the beholder, the driver would not have a legal remedy.
Meanwhile the union itself was exposed as being hypocritical.
Oh, I’m a Christian too - but I’m the kind that fights back. Those Gay Mafia types will never stop trying to pervert our lives and our children’s lives - we have to fight.
There are no private companies anymore, not if the government can dictate who you can hire and not hire, who you can fire and for what reasons, what prices you can charge, and whether you can or can’t sell YOUR business to a competitor.
I hate to say it, but we are no longer a free country.
Failure to salute the flag of Sodom is just one punishable offense.
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