{"id":19758,"date":"2015-03-31T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T17:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/?p=19758"},"modified":"2020-08-24T19:11:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T19:11:09","slug":"ufcw-president-perrone-in-response-to-governor-pence-fully-repeal-indianas-discriminatory-law","status":"publish","type":"press_releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/press-releases\/ufcw-president-perrone-in-response-to-governor-pence-fully-repeal-indianas-discriminatory-law\/","title":{"rendered":"UFCW President Perrone in Response to Governor Pence: Fully Repeal Indiana\u2019s Discriminatory Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16770_752833021496094_6582326965493961549_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-19759\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16770_752833021496094_6582326965493961549_n.jpg\" alt=\"16770_752833021496094_6582326965493961549_n\" width=\"311\" height=\"429\" \/><\/a>WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u2014<strong>Marc Perrone<\/strong>, International President of the 1.3 million member <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\/\">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW)<\/a><\/strong>, called for a full repeal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in response to Indiana Governor Mike Pence\u2019s press conference where he offered to fix the law without providing specifics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis law is not about freedom, it purposely legislates discrimination and division. It is anti-American, anti-family, and anti-worker. It is a law that cruelly targets men and women, and their families, simply because of who they are. It is fundamentally wrong, it does not belong in Indiana or any state in America, and it must be repealed.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, as we decide where to take our future business\u2014from annual conferences to the UFCW 2018 International Convention\u2014we will not consider Indiana unless it fully repeals this discriminatory law. We urge every union, every American, and every business and employer, large and small, to join with the millions of Americans who have already spoken out against this needless and terrible law.<\/p>\n<p>For the better America we all believe in, this law must be scrapped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\">United Food and Commercial Workers International Union<\/a> (UFCW) online at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufcw.org\">www.ufcw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We are 1.3 million families standing together to build an economy that every hard-working family deserves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sharepoint.www.ufcw.org\/Communications\/Communications%20Shared%20Work\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/Temporary%20Internet%20Files\/Content.Outlook\/AppData\/Local\/Microsoft\/Windows\/Temporary%20Internet%20Files\/Content.Outlook\/UF8394FE\/www.facebook.com\/UFCWinternational\">www.facebook.com\/UFCWinternational<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/UFCW\">@UFCW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2014Marc Perrone, International President of the 1.3 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), called for a full repeal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in response to Indiana Governor Mike Pence\u2019s press conference where he offered to fix the law without providing specifics. \u201cThis law is not about freedom, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":223,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19758","press_releases","type-press_releases","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lgbtq","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UFCW President Perrone in Response to Governor Pence: Fully Repeal Indiana\u2019s Discriminatory Law - The United Food &amp; 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