On September 10th the ALAA Joint Council passed the resolution “Solidarity With Workers In A Better NYLAG and UAW Local 4811 Organizing for Palestinian Liberation And Against Management Repression”
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Solidarity With Workers In A Better NYLAG and UAW Local 4811 Organizing for Palestinian Liberation And Against Management Repression
Authors: Navruz Baum, Cameron Molyneaux, Sophia Gurulé
WHEREAS NYLAG management has publicly smeared our organizing for Palestinian liberation as “repugnant,”
WHEREAS NYLAG has banned posters supporting Palestinian liberation and posters protesting that policy, in violation of federal labor law,
WHEREAS NYLAG management has cold-called individual workers, harassing them and demanding they remove posters,
WHEREAS NYLAG management has stolen, damaged, and refused to return workers’ personal belongings,
WHEREAS NYLAG continues in this illegal course of action despite a pending Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) charge,
WHEREAS NYLAG workers, despite management’s intimidation, continue to organize for Palestinian liberation including by displaying the illegally banned posters,
WHEREAS workers in UAW Local 4811, who work at the University of California (UC), struck in May against management’s unilateral and illegal implementation of policies used to police, attack, and arrest workers organizing for Palestinian liberation,
WHEREAS UC management has now instituted further policies banning masks and encampments,
WHEREAS UC management is retaliating against workers for their strike with disciplinary letters, wage garnishment, and threats of termination,
WHEREAS UC workers, despite this intimidation, continue to organize for Palestinian liberation,
WHEREAS bosses, whether at companies, nonprofits, or universities have no authority over worker political organizing, the direction of which is ours and ours alone to determine,
WHEREAS we, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) UAW Local 2325, have consistently supported Palestinian liberation, opposed UAW-Israeli ties, and stood in solidarity with workers facing repression for political speech,
WHEREAS Israel continues to occupy, massacre, and torture Palestinians while being armed and funded by the United States.
THEREFORE we, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys (ALAA) UAW Local 2325,
- Stand in solidarity with workers in A Better NYLAG and UAW Local 4811 who are organizing for Palestinian liberation and against management repression of workers’ free speech against U.S.-backed Israeli genocide, occupation, and apartheid,
- Call on NYLAG to immediately cease its illegal and retaliatory conduct,
- Call on the University of California to immediately cease its illegal and retaliatory conduct,
- Support the UAW International’s efforts to pressure the Biden-Harris administration to stop arming Israel and call on the UAW International to pressure the UAW-endorsed Harris-Walz campaign to commit to the same,
- Reiterate our demand that the UAW International divest from Israeli bonds and cut ties with the Histadrut.
