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Wear Our Gay Pride Badge Or You Can't Meet The People, The National Trust Tells It's Volunteers.
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Isn't this taking things a little too far?
Isn't this taking things a little too far?
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Read it again, if they are not threats and punishments I don't know what is.
/// The National Trust has told workers they will be banned from meeting members of the public if they refuse to wear a rainbow lanyard throughout their celebration of the legalisation of homosexuality. ///
/// Staff at Felbrigg Hall, in Norfolk, which was gifted to the Trust by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, have been asked to wear a badge or lanyard with the rainbow flag and told they will not be able to meet and greet guests if they do not. ///
Read it again, if they are not threats and punishments I don't know what is.
/// The National Trust has told workers they will be banned from meeting members of the public if they refuse to wear a rainbow lanyard throughout their celebration of the legalisation of homosexuality. ///
/// Staff at Felbrigg Hall, in Norfolk, which was gifted to the Trust by Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, have been asked to wear a badge or lanyard with the rainbow flag and told they will not be able to meet and greet guests if they do not. ///
As someone who has managed volunteers in the NHS, I can tell you its the very devil. Many volunteers are wonderful committed people who are happy to work with the organisation. There are others who think because they are volunteers that the rules don’t apply to them...and still others who volunteer to build their own little empire or, worse, to be as difficult as possible. Simple fact is that if you are a volunteer, or a paid employee, then there will be a line to toe and if you don’t then you will be asked to change your role or leave.
The National Trust is not a gay support society, there is no justification for those high up trying to use it as one, nor discriminating against volunteers who object to wearing support badges, because of that desire. Arguments in favour based on the idea that an organisation can demand what it wants, holds no water. It's an abuse of an organisation that's supposed to be looking after places.
Once the NT decided to have the badge, enforcement of its wearing became inevitable because to allow people to not wear the badge is to allow an interpretation of "I don't support this issue". In other words, not wearing the badge is a kind of a badge in itself.
This makes the whole thing a well-intentioned but ultimately bad idea. The NT should have just stuck to its remit, "a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces - for ever, for everyone".
This makes the whole thing a well-intentioned but ultimately bad idea. The NT should have just stuck to its remit, "a charity that works to preserve and protect historic places and spaces - for ever, for everyone".
It is simply a fact of the anniversary that 2017 has brought - many organisations are combining this historic fact into their usual realm of activities. The NT have not suddenly become promoters of anything but incorporated the anniversary.
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Mamy - they could explore it without changing their uniform and thereby alienating some wearers of that uniform, who have been volunteers for years and who support the remit of the organisation. On the page you link to, they don't even mention the uniform change under "What we're doing". Perhaps they didn't think it was a big deal.
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