March 25, 2024
Yvonne Wheeler, President
Los Angeles County Federation of Labor
2130 James M. Wood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90006
Dear Miss Yvonne Wheeler and Members of the Executive Board,
We are writing to urgently request that the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, the Central Labor Council representing the largest county in the United States, heed the call of workers at home and abroad.
Israel’s crimes are only possible because of more than $3.8 billion a year (or $10+ million per day) in bipartisan US military aid that gives Israel the guns, bullets, tanks, ships, jet fighters, missiles, helicopters, white phosphorus and other weapons to kill and maim the Palestinian people. This is the same system of racist state violence that, through shared surveillance technology and police exchange programs, brutalizes BIPOC and working class people in the United States and around the world.
We are calling upon the Los Angeles County Labor Federation to issue a statement demanding an immediate end to the genocide, and further reaffirm the call on labor bodies to respect previous Palestinian trade union appeals for solidarity by adopting this statement, and/or the model resolution to divest from Israel Bonds, and respect the Palestinian picket line for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), which calls not only for an end to the 1967 Israeli occupation, but an end to Israeli occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall, full equality for Arab-Palestinians inside 1948 Palestine, and implementation of the right of Palestinian refugees to return.
We thank you for your attention on this matter and look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
The Members of Los Angeles Labor for Palestine and over 500 rank and file members, staff, and elected leaders of the following labor unions:
AFSCME 2712, AFT 1388, AFT 1521, Animation Guild Local 839, California Classified School Employees Association, California Faculty Association, California Faculty Association-LA, Caltech Grads and Postdocs United, CGPU-UAW, CIR SEIU, CSEA, CSUEU, CWA Local 9410, CWA Local 9588, , GSWOC UAW, GSWOC USC, IAM, IATSE, IATSE local 600, IATSE 839 animation guild, IATSE – Local 44, IATSE 111, IATSE 700, IATSE 705, IATSE 800, IATSE 892, IATSE 729, IATSE 839, IATSE 871, IATSE B-192, OPEIU Local 174, Santa Monica Municipal Employees Association, SAG-AFTRA, SEIU 2015, SEIU 721, SEIU-UHW, SEIU USWW, TAG, Teamsters 396, Teamsters, UAW 2865, UAW 5810,UAW 4123, UAW 4811, UAW 872, UMAW, Unite Here Local 11, UTLA, WGA, WGAE, WGAW, WIA
Below are their names:
| Jesús Portilla | AFSCME 36 |
| Christina Johnson | 705/892 |
| Meli Mila | Academic Professionals |
| Steve Teixeira | Academic Professionals of California, CSU system |
| Yifei Yang | AEU |
| Christopher Schamber | AFSCME 2712 |
| Staci O’Neal-Robinson | AFSCME Local 2712 |
| Ali Amadpour | AFT 1388 |
| maria elena martinez | Aft 1521 |
| Derrick Johnsom | Animation Guild |
| Jessica Zammit | Animation guild |
| Anthony Wu | Animation Guild 839 |
| Caitlin VanArsdale | Animation Guild Local 839 |
| Tommy Le | Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance |
| Robert DeWitz | Association Employees Union |
| Sean Wakasa | C/GPU-UAW |
| Khanum shaikh | Calif faculty association |
| Michael Solomon | California Classified School Employees Association |
| Akhila Ananth | California Faculty Association |
| Akhila Ananth | California Faculty Association |
| Leda Ramos | California Faculty Association |
| Janet Winston | California Faculty Association |
| Daniel Olmos | California Faculty Association |
| Stevie Ruiz | California Faculty Association |
| Melina Abdullah | California Faculty Association |
| Daniel Osoy | California Faculty Association |
| Dennis López | California Faculty Association |
| Steve McFarland | California Faculty Association |
| Alfredo Carlos | California Faculty Association |
| Jake Wilson | California Faculty Association (CFA) – Long Beach Chapter |
| Juan Lamata | California Faculty Association-LA; DSA-LA |
| Anthony Ratcliff | California Faculty Association-Los Angeles |
| Claire Garrido-Ortega | California Faculty Association, Long Beach |
| Olga Garcia | California Faculty Union |
| Jason Boxer | California State University Employee Union (SEIU 2579) |
| Maria Carilli | Caltech |
| Beebee Yusrah Kaudeer | Caltech |
| Erik Schrunk | Caltech CGPU |
| Nathaniel Nyema | Caltech CGPU |
| Rohan Shenoy | Caltech GPU |
| Richard Horak | Caltech Grad Students and Postdocs United |
| James Williams | Caltech Grads and Postdocs United |
| Noor Naji | Caltech Grads and Postdocs United |
| Amanda Bednarick | Caltech Graduate Researchers and Postocs United |
| Jakob Faber | Caltech Graduate Student and Postdoc Union (UAW) |
| Matthew Langley | Caltech Graduate Students and Postdocs United – UAW |
| Desiderio Ascencio | Caltech UAW |
| Kathryn Sorrells | CFA |
| Sheena Malhotra | CFA |
| Marta Lopez Garza | Cfa |
| Molly Talcott | CFA |
| Dana collins | CFA |
| Leda Ramos | CFA |
| tina beyene | cfa |
| oliverio rodriguez | CFA |
| Juan Lamata | CFA |
| Rachael Stryker | CFA |
| Pedro Reyes | CFA |
| Preeti Sharma | CFA |
| William Camargo | CFA |
| Dr. Aimee Carrillo Rowe | CFA |
| Rania saeb | CFA |
| Tracy Buenavista | CFA |
| Stephanie Cariaga | CFA |
| Jinah Kim | CFA |
| Guy Hepp | CFA |
| Jocyl Sacramento | CFA |
| John Caravello | CFA |
| Jose Aguilar-Hernandez | CFA |
| Gina Masequesmay | CFA |
| Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales | CFA |
| Edwin Hernandez | CFA |
| Ahlam Muhtaseb | CFA (California Faculty Association) |
| Molly Talcott | CFA (SEIU local 1983) |
| Alejandra Marchevsky | CFA LA |
| Libby Lewis | CFA-LA |
| Anthony Ratcliff | CFA/SEIU 1983 – Los Angeles |
| Alejandro Villalpando | CFA/SEIU 2015 |
| Jason Elias | CFT |
| Ranjani Murali | CGPU |
| Honami Tanaka | CGPU |
| Zitong Wang | CGPU |
| Termeh Bashiri | CGPU |
| Judah Bates | CGPU |
| Tessa Rusch | CGPU |
| Nivedita Mahesh | CGPU |
| Sam Ponnada | CGPU UAW |
| Sophie hourihane | CGPU UAW |
| Sam Ponnada | CGPU UAW |
| Nadia Suryawinata | CGPU UAW |
| Sophie Hourihane | CGPU UAW |
| Harshda Saxena | CGPU UAW |
| Delaney Dunne | CGPU-UAW |
| Simona Miller | CGPU-UAW |
| Alexander Viloria Winnett | CGPU-UAW |
| Ashay Patel | CGPU-UAW |
| Jessica Jacobs-Li | CGPU-UAW |
| James Williams | CGPU-UAW |
| Emma Cosner | CGPU-UAW |
| Delaney Dunne | CGPU-UAW |
| Shirin Shivaei | CGPU-UAW |
| Zoya Vallari | CGPU-UAW |
| Abdullah Farooq | CGPU-UAW |
| Mike McKeon | CGPU-UAW |
| Evie Harel | CGPU-UAW |
| Lambda Moses | CGPU-UAW |
| Aditi Narayanan | CGPU-UAW |
| Thomas Naragon | CGPU-UAW |
| Adolfo Carvalho | CGPU-UAW |
| Jack Wilding | CGPU-UAW |
| Jasmine Emtage | CGPU-UAW |
| Daniel Utter | CGPU-UAW |
| Ryan Rubenzahl | CGPU-UAW |
| Natasha Reich | CGPU-UAW |
| Joud Mar’i | CGPU-UAW |
| Ishaan Dev | CGPU-UAW |
| Ravi Lal | CGPU-UAW |
| Pat Meyers | CGPU-UAW |
| Meera Prasad | CGPU-UAW |
| Sahangi Dassanayake | CGPU-UAW |
| Ann Liu | CGPU-UAW |
| Frances Gill | CIR |
| Frances Gill | CIR SEIU |
| Omar Abbas | CIR-SEIU |
| Afaf Moustafa | CIR/SEIU |
| Violet Ranson | Committee for Interns and Residents SEIU |
| Micah Morse | Committee of Interns and Residents SEIU |
| Dru Brenner | Committee of interns and residents SEIU |
| Hillary Postman | CSEA but it’s not in their purview |
| MONICA CORNEJO | CSUEU |
| Theresa Montaño | CSUN CFA |
| Margaret McLaughlin | CWA |
| Ana Langone | CWA Local 9410 |
| Thomas Ham | CWA Local 9588 |
| Alex Mannix | DMU with NABET-CWA |
| Ed Keenan | DSA |
| HectorAgredano | Faculty Association |
| Jackie Johnson | GSWOC UAW |
| Saran Uthayakumar | GSWOC USC |
| Javier Moro | I’m with DSA-la. We’re partners with unite here local 11 |
| Ella Thompson | IA 800 |
| Kathryn Mays | IAM |
| Sarah Takizawa | IASTE LOCAL 600 |
| Claire Norris | IASTE Local 839 |
| Amanda | Iatse |
| Basil Larios | Iatse |
| Elana Esquivel | IATSE |
| Lucia Pier | IATSE |
| Alexandra Benson | Iatse |
| Reem ali adeeb | IATSE 839 animation guild |
| Alina Cutrono | IATSE – Local 44 |
| Brodie Johnson | IATSE 111 |
| Cheyanne Lee | IATSE 44 |
| Ellen Nielsen | IATSE 44 |
| Mel Mel Sukekawa-Mooring | IATSE 700 |
| Christina Johnson | IATSE 705 & IATSE 892 |
| Jacquie Li | IATSE 729 |
| Miranda cristofani | IATSE 800 |
| Roger oda | IATSE 839 |
| Amanda Texter-Donahue | IATSE 839 |
| Byron Merrill | IATSE 839 |
| Lucyola Langi | IATSE 839 |
| Megan Phonesavanh | IATSE 839 |
| Roger Oda | Iatse 839 |
| Caroline Chiou | IATSE 839 |
| Anthony Wu | IATSE 839 |
| Claire Norris | IATSE 839 (TAG) |
| Spencer W Rothbell | IATSE 839 The Animation Guild |
| Miriam Arghandiwal | IATSE 871 |
| Jay Goldstuck | IATSE 871 |
| Sophia Savellos | IATSE B-192 |
| Alex Anderson-Kenney | IATSE L839 |
| Nora Meek | IATSE L839 |
| Ellen Nielsen | IATSE Local 44 |
| Randi Hokett | IATSE local 44 |
| Claire Norris | IATSE Local 839 |
| Karli Melder | IATSE Local 839 |
| Allison Smith | IATSE Local 839 |
| Abigail Bokun | IATSE local 839 |
| Kelsey Wooley | IATSE LOCAL 839 |
| Amanda Texter-Donahue | IATSE Local 839 |
| Christina Manrique | IATSE Local 839 |
| Lindsay Katai | IATSE Local 839 – The Animation Guild |
| Abigail Bokun | IATSE Local 839 (Animation Guild) |
| Elianne Melendez | IATSE Local 839, The Animation Guild |
| Beez McCree | IATSE Local 871 |
| Alison Golub | IATSE Local 871 |
| Jill Salaver | Iatse local 871 |
| Chelsea Moore | IATSE Local USA 829 |
| Ayse Arf | IATSE Locals 44, 800 |
| Stephen Lee | IATSE TAG 839 |
| Olga Lexell | IATSE, WGAw |
| Mahdi Jorat | IBEW Local 18 |
| Michael Grasseschi | Ironworkers IW Local 433 |
| James Banks | Local 4123 / staff |
| sean hayashi | Local 44 |
| Laura Walsh | Local 839 |
| Colleen Koperek | News Guild CWA Local 38010 |
| Sarah Draper | OPEIU Local 174 |
| Ethan Ravens | Pas United |
| Monica Sanchez | PHBP |
| Victoria Barron | Planned parenthood of pacific southwest union |
| Christopher Lightfoot | SAG |
| Sara Fahmy | SAG |
| Estee Chandler | SAG |
| matthew horn | SAG AFTRA |
| Shea Vaughan-Gabor | SAG AFTRA |
| Brandon Severs | Sag Aftra |
| Valida | SAG-AFTRA |
| Emily Rose Debinie | SAG-AFTRA |
| Zaneta Polard | SAG-AFTRA and UTLA |
| Amin El Gamal | SAG-AFTRA and AEA |
| Mathew Moore | SAG-AFTRA; Teamsters |
| Jasmine Rebollar | SDLU-UAW |
| Mikah Abejero | Securitas |
| Sana Syed | SEIU |
| Vanessa Gonzalez | Seiu |
| Vlad Ryzhanovskiy | SEIU 2015 |
| Karl Alvarado | SEIU 721 |
| Julia Wallace | SEIU 721 |
| Alicia Albertson | SEIU 721 |
| E Abdel-Ghany | SEIU 721 |
| Sarah Spletzer | SEIU 721 |
| Paul Kim | SEIU 721 |
| Perla Lopez | SEIU 721 |
| Promise Li | SEIU 721 |
| Mario Prietto | SEIU 721 & CFA |
| June Williams | Seiu local |
| Marcelle Alvarado | SEIU Local 2015, CHESU |
| Jonathan Kim | SEIU UHW |
| Jorge Villanueva | SEIU UHW |
| Mali Woods-Drake | Seiu Uhw |
| Renee Saldana | SEIU-UHW |
| Eleni Johnson | SEIU-UHW |
| Alicia Lepe | SEIU-UHW |
| Jonathan Everhart | SEIU-UHW |
| Adriana A | SEIU-UHW |
| Alex Scordato | SEIU-UHW |
| Carla Garcia | Seiu-uhw |
| Anna Yu | SEIU-UHW |
| Jessica Cruz | SEIU-UHW |
| Mia Neustein | SEIU-UHW |
| Maky Peters | SEIU-UHW |
| Coleman Pinkerton | SEIU-UHW (staff) |
| Seán Broadbent | SMART – Int’l Assoc of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers |
| Arielle Sallai | Staff Workers United & Democratic Socialists of America |
| Arielle Sallai | Staff Workers United 2599 |
| Cole McCarthy | Student Dining Labor Union – UAW (SDLU-UAW) |
| Faisal Fazilat | SWU 2599 |
| Cynthia Paredes Alvarado | SWU 2599 |
| Alexandra Barboza | TAG |
| Charles Gavin | TAG |
| Bryan Mann | TAG |
| Kris Mukai | TAG 839 |
| Neil Morrissey | TAG 839 |
| Melissa Levengood | TAG 839 |
| Abigail Magno | TAG Local 839 |
| Rianna Liu | TAG Local 839 |
| Marceline Jones | TAG, Local 839 |
| Jose Francisco Negrete | Teamster Local 952 |
| Magdalena Enriquez | TEAMSTERS |
| Apolonio Sanchez | Teamsters |
| William Pina | Teamsters |
| Jose Francisco Negrete | Teamsters & Teamsters Mobilize |
| William Pina | Teamsters local 396 |
| Janis Robertson | The Animation Guild |
| Arielle Kim | The Animation Guild |
| Aprilyn Cunanan | The Animation Guild – Local 839 |
| Jean Kang | The Animation Guild 839 |
| Diana Huh | The Animation Guild 839 |
| Angel Lorenzana | The Animation Guild Local 839 |
| Elizabeth Ito | The Animation Guild, IATSE 839 |
| Jennifer Huddleston | UAPD |
| Samantha Solis | UAW |
| Brenda Wang | UAW |
| Abby Groff | UAW |
| Caroline Martínez | UAW |
| michael stenovec | UAW |
| Wilson Hammett | UAW |
| Nora Marki | UAW |
| Michael Purello | UAW |
| Rahma Elsiesy | UAW |
| Marina Lecoeuche | UAW |
| Simona Miller | UAW |
| Zack Urbach | UAW |
| Maile McCann | UAW |
| Michael Lumpkin | Uaw |
| Michael Stenovec | UAW |
| Michael Lumpkin | Uaw |
| Vincent Marchses | UAW |
| Grant Stover | Uaw |
| Sandra Castro | UAW |
| Jazmyn Lu | UAW 2856 |
| Jason Contino | UAW 2865 |
| Summer Lopez Colorado | UAW 2865 |
| Anthony Muljat | UAW 2865 |
| Jacqueline Perez | UAW 2865 |
| Madison Hopkins | UAW 2865 |
| Cole Kurashige | UAW 2865 |
| Noura Alaboudi | UAW 2865 |
| Jasmine Amerasekera | UAW 2865 |
| Aya Konishi | UAW 2865 |
| Paul Vander | UAW 2865 |
| Ethan Heffernan | UAW 2865 |
| Danea Palmer | UAW 2865 |
| Hiya Datta | uaw 2865 |
| Jeremiah Scott Lawson | UAW 2865 |
| Anna Skrip | UAW 2865 |
| Claire Bekker | UAW 2865 |
| Chris de Firmian | UAW 2865 |
| Tia Chung-Swanson | UAW 2865 |
| alexis andino | uaw 2865 |
| Benjamin Kersten | UAW 2865 |
| Matt Hing | UAW 2865 |
| Tirzah Blanche | UAW 2865 |
| Nathaniel Pigott | UAW 2865 |
| Kyle Scott | UAW 2865 |
| Jose Jarquin | UAW 2865 |
| Pedro | UAW 2865 |
| Ethan Friedland | UAW 2865 |
| Mariam Issa | UAW 2865 |
| Connor Woods | UAW 2865 |
| Benjamin Kersten | UAW 2865 |
| Bineh Ndefru | UAW 2865 |
| Magally Miranda | UAW 2865 |
| Garret May | UAW 2865 |
| Jas Singh | UAW 2865 |
| Jessica Soule | Uaw 2865 |
| Amy Kanne | UAW 2865, 5810, SDLU |
| Michael Wasney | UAW 2865/4811 |
| Lark Winner | UAW 4123 |
| Eric Phipps | UAW 4123 |
| Israe Estrada | uaw 4123 |
| Yazmin Lommel | UAW 4123 |
| Roland Ernst | UAW 4123 |
| Emily Raab | UAW 4123 |
| Brandon Beller | UAW 4123 |
| Wren Wilson | UAW 4123 |
| Eric Phipps | UAW 4123 |
| Dana Kopel | UAW 4811 |
| Milan Mandigo-Stoba | UAW 4811 |
| Nathan Siu | UAW 4811 |
| Michelle Gardner | UAW 4811 |
| Sydney Campbell | UAW 5810 |
| Jeanean Naqvi | UAW 5810 |
| Zack Urbach | UAW 5810 |
| Anna Haynie | UAW 872 |
| Lorri Rao | UAW 872 |
| Piril Nergis | UAW 872 |
| Nate Joseph | UAW Local 4811 |
| Janis Yue | UAW USC Faculty Drive |
| Arjun Krishna | UAW-2865 |
| Varun Wadia | UAW-CGPU |
| Andres Gonzalez | UAW-NOSLW |
| Zeinab Chahine | UAW-UC 5810 2865 |
| Jasmien Sihota | UAW-UCI |
| Sam robbins | UAW2865 |
| Kye Shi | UAW2865 |
| Alexander Rudenshiold | UAW2865 |
| Rebecca Waxman | UAW2865 |
| TJ Shin | UAW2865 |
| Sean Pike | UAW5810 |
| Ally Cara | UAW5810 |
| Alexander Stanton | UAW5810 |
| Patrick McBurnie | UC UAW |
| Joann Lo | UDW |
| Fernando Ramirez | UE Union |
| Esther Sims | UFCW 324 |
| Edgar Reyes | UFCW 770 |
| Sandra Figueroa | UFCW Local 770 |
| Alaa Abou-Arab | UNAC/UHCP |
| Kuusela Hilo | UNAC/UHCP |
| Alaa Abou-Arab | UNAC/UHCP |
| Sabreen Onallah | UNAC/UHCP |
| Cecilia Barnes | UNAC/UHCP |
| Hunter Sagaskie | Union 2865 |
| Cat Mahatta | Union of Musicians & Allied Workers |
| Jordan Palmer | Union staff |
| Kristen Thompson | UNITE HERE, Local 11 |
| Drew Honson | United Auto Workers |
| Geshalem Perez | United Nurses Staff Union |
| Jack Mannix | United Staff Union |
| Luis Mora | United Teachers Los Angeles |
| Luis Mora | United Teachers Los Angeles |
| Cliff Smith | United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers Local 36 |
| Stefany Greer | United Union Professionals |
| Ben Magana | United union professionals |
| Karin Mak | UNSU |
| Hypatia Ostojic | UpTe CWA 9119 |
| Seo Yun Son | USU |
| Derek Swanson | USW |
| Gary Holloway | USW Local 675 |
| Beatris Coronado | UTLA |
| Taylor Vivanco | UTLA |
| Anna Tugnoli | Utla |
| Julian Ybarra | UTLA |
| Will Shattuc | UTLA |
| Julie Grair | UTLA |
| Bri Price | UTLA |
| Rosemarie Driscoll | UTLA |
| Taylor Vivanco | UTLA |
| Jane McGuire | UTLA |
| Elizabeth Ures | UTLA |
| Carrie Merrihew | Utla |
| Kelly Miller | Utla |
| Kate Kuczynski | UTLA |
| Martha Meléndrez | UTLA |
| Sarah Feigelson | UTLA |
| Ron Gochez | UTLA |
| Beatris Coronado | UTLA |
| Yadira Villalobos | Utla |
| Amira Kerkache | UTLA |
| Michael Gearin | UTLA |
| Mikhail Pronilover | UTLA |
| Claudia Hoffens | UTLA |
| Yazmin Lugo | UTLA |
| Jane McGuire | UTLA |
| Hannah Klein | UTLA |
| Julia Elise Bare | UTLA |
| Matt Sailer | UTLA |
| Amal Shahin | UTLA |
| Cristina Vigil | Utla |
| Maria Avalos | UTLA |
| Gillian Claycomb | UTLA |
| Frances Marion | UTLA |
| noah campbell | Utla |
| Rosemarie Driscoll | UTLA |
| Flynn Nicholls | UTLA |
| Nivia Alvarado | Utla |
| Chloe Miller | UTLA |
| Ali Navid | UTLA |
| Julie Grair | UTLA |
| Amira Kerkache | UTLA |
| Thomas Malone | UUR |
| Alex O’Keefe | WGA |
| Molly Savard | WGA |
| Mason Hsieh | WGA |
| Christian Grier | WGA |
| Tommy Pico | WGA |
| Francis Weiss Rabkin | WGA |
| Alex O’Keefe | WGA West |
| Jessica Schulberg | WGAE |
| Francis Weiss Rabkin | WGAW |
| Alareece Di Andrea | WIA |
