UPS Denies Health Benefits to NJ Couples

Even though UPS offers health care coverage of same sex spouses of employees in Mass., it denies them in NJ because the state uses the term "Civil Unions" and not "marriage" in its recent legislation giving gay couples legal recognition. One of the UPS drivers who was denied coverage for his partner said it best:

"It's upsetting," Walton said. "We were told this law was going to give us the same benefits as everybody else, even though they weren't calling it marriage. It just goes to show when something is separate, it's never equal."