United Auto Workers

UAW Convention Votes to Divest from Israel Bonds

July 3, 2026 UNAC Editor Israel, Labor, Mass action, Uncategorized

by Martha Grevatt, published on Workers World, June 24, 2026 The United Auto Workers (UAW) has become the largest U.S. union to divest its funds from Israel Bonds. On June 18, delegates to the UAW’s quadrennial Constitutional Convention voted 321-287 in favor of amending the union’s constitution to end current and block future investment in bonds that support the Zionist[…]

UAW Rank and File Demand their Union Divest from Genocide

June 2, 2024 UNAC Editor Action!!, Israel, Israel-Palestine, Labor, Palestine

published on Workers World, May 25, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine (UAW L4P) issued the statement below on May 10) United Auto Workers leadership must stop crossing the Palestinian trade union picket line and immediately divest from Israeli genocide! UAW Labor for Palestine has learned that the International Executive Board of the United Auto Workers [at its meeting held April[…]

Anti-Racist Solidarity: Kenosha’s Labor History

September 7, 2020 UNAC Editor Labor, Organizing, Racism

by Martha Grevatt posted on Workers World, August 31, 2020 Since the near-lynching of Jacob Blake by police, the city of Kenosha, Wis., population 100,000, has become a focus of the Black Lives Matter upsurge. Up to that point, Kenosha was just a dot on the map to most people. However, the city’s United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 72 played[…]