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New VP for LGBTQ workers wants safe workplaces

The Hamilton Spectator

June 11, 2013

BySteve Arnold 

Despite years of progress, most workers are still afraid to “come out” to employers and coworkers — and that’s something Hamilton native Marlon Picken wants to change.

Picken’s platform for that effort will be his new post as diversity vice-president, LGBTQ, with the Ontario branch of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

CUPE created the post at its convention last year, adding it to existing vice-president posts for aboriginal and racialized workers. Picken was elected in a three-way race for the position by the union’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual and queer caucus. more