A supermajority of workers at Equality California, the statewide LGBTQ rights organization, announced July 29 that they have formed a union, Equality Unites, with the Communications Workers of America.
Later that same day, EQCA Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur and executive director-designate Tony Hoang issued a joint statement in which they recognized the union. "This morning, Equality California received notice from our employees that they intend to organize a collective bargaining unit and a request that we voluntarily recognize it," Zbur and Hoang stated. "As a progressive civil rights organization, Equality California has always stood shoulder-to-shoulder with unions in support of workers' rights to organize and collectively