An Injury to One is an Injury to All: We Won’t Work for Genocide! CALL FOR MASS LABOR ACTION STARTING OCTOBER 7, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine National Network, Endorsed by: National Students for Justice in Palestine) (2024)

Posted on September 23, 2024 by labor4pal | Comments Off on An Injury to One is an Injury to All: We Won’t Work for Genocide! CALL FOR MASS LABOR ACTION STARTING OCTOBER 7, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine National Network, Endorsed by: National Students for Justice in Palestine)

Original online here.

An Injury to One is an Injury to All: We Won’t Work for Genocide! CALL FOR MASS LABOR ACTION STARTING OCTOBER 7, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine National Network, Endorsed by: National Students for Justice in Palestine) (1)

An Injury to One is an Injury to All: We Won’t Work for Genocide!
CALL FOR MASS LABOR ACTION STARTING OCTOBER 7, 2024
Issued on September 23, 2024 by: UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine National Network*
Endorsed by: National Students for Justice in Palestine

This past year, we have witnessed the Israeli regime genocide hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza, throughout greater Palestine, and now into Lebanon, using weapons provided by the US under a Democratic administration.

Despite the opposition of the vast majority of Democratic voters and millions of others, and as Israel expands its genocide into Lebanon, the Biden-Harris administration will not stop the genocide. With major union leaders unwilling to go beyond mere words, workers must use our greatest leverage—the ability to collectively withhold our labor, alongside other action—to respond to urgent Palestinian trade unions’ appeals for solidarity.

We are workers from every sector whose labor is directly or indirectly implicated in this genocide. We call upon all workers—unionized and nonunionized—to heed this call. We draw inspiration from students taking material risks in their struggle to end their universities’ complicity in genocide and settler colonialism. Across the country, Gaza Solidarity Encampments demanding divestment and an end to collaboration with Israeli academic institutions were violently repressed with thousands of students and academic workers arrested, some still facing charges. We must stand with students as they continue organizing against the genocide and its escalation into Lebanon despite heightened repression. Together we have the power to disrupt the genocide weapons supply chain ourselves.

Our working and learning conditions in the US are directly connected to the fate of Palestinians. Billions of our tax dollars and labor are sent by the US government to facilitate a genocide instead of supporting universal healthcare, education, or housing while our most basic rights are under attack. We must apply economic pressure on the US-to-Israel pipeline. With Israel’s economy in a tailspin, now is the time to divest from and demilitarize empire.

We will begin a rolling mass mobilization of students and workers on October 7, which marks one year of Israel’s intensified genocide in Palestine, building and escalating every two weeks:

  • October 7: Student-Labor Day of Action for Gaza – withhold labor through strikes, sickouts, walkouts, pickets, rallies, and other actions to kick off Week of Rage with National Students for Justice in Palestine
  • October 21: organize additional sectors to participate in and expand this mass action
  • November 4: further expand and heighten the action, escalating to blockades of workplaces complicit in the genocide, including research labs, factories, and logistics that supply the Israeli military

We must also end all complicity with settler colonialism by demanding our colleges adopt BDS and our unions divest from Israel Bonds and break ties with Zionist organizations, like the racist Histadrut and genocide-supporting Jewish Labor Committee.

Take action with us and fight for a free Palestine from the river to the sea. Will you join us?

=========

*Labor for Palestine National Network Member Organizations

  1. Labor for Palestine (U.S)
  2. UAW Labor for Palestine
  3. Amazon Labor Union – IBT Local 1
  4. Teamsters Mobilize
  5. Vermont Labor for Palestine
  6. Wisconsin Labor for Palestine
  7. UCLA Rank and File for a Democratic Union
  8. NYC City Workers for Palestine
  9. NYC Educators for Palestine
  10. Fair Trade Music NOLA
  11. Pride at Work/Eastern Massachusetts
  12. Purple Up 4 Palestine
  13. SAG-AFTRA Members for Ceasefire
  14. United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, Local 36
  15. 1021 Members for Palestine
  16. AFSCME Local 526
  17. No Tech for Apartheid
  18. Brown Graduate Labor Organization, AFT/RIFT Local 6516
  19. Brown Palestine Solidarity Caucus, AFT/RIFT Local 6516
  20. UAW 2325 Labor for Palestine
  21. L.A. Labor for Palestine
  22. American Federation of Musicians, Local 1000
  23. Union Nurses for Palestine
  24. Educators for Palestine
  25. NYC Labor for Palestine
  26. Green 4 Falasteen
  27. Bay Area Labor for Palestine
  28. Maine Labor for Palestine
  29. Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association
  30. Youth Against Sweatshops
  31. SENS UAW Local 7902
  32. New Student Worker’s Union
  33. Writers Against the War on Gaza
  34. Theater Workers for a Ceasefire
  35. Tech Workers Coalition
  36. UPTE Members for Palestine
  37. M.E.T.A (Meta Employees for Transparency and Accountability)
  38. Colorado Labor for Palestine
  39. IATSE Members for Palestine
  40. Garment Worker Center
  41. Apples Against Apartheid
  42. Labor Community-Alliance of South Florida (LCA)

Additional Endorsing Worker-Based Organizations (list in formation)

  1. Philadelphia Healthcare Workers for Palestine
  2. Healthcare Workers for Palestine – Maine
  3. Healthcare Workers for Palestine

Related

This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.

Comments are closed.

An Injury to One is an Injury to All: We Won’t Work for Genocide! CALL FOR MASS LABOR ACTION STARTING OCTOBER 7, 2024 (UAW Labor for Palestine and Labor for Palestine National Network, Endorsed by: National Students for Justice in Palestine) (2024)

References

Top Articles
Latest Posts
Recommended Articles
Article information

Author: Pres. Carey Rath

Last Updated:

Views: 6041

Rating: 4 / 5 (41 voted)

Reviews: 88% of readers found this page helpful

Author information

Name: Pres. Carey Rath

Birthday: 1997-03-06

Address: 14955 Ledner Trail, East Rodrickfort, NE 85127-8369

Phone: +18682428114917

Job: National Technology Representative

Hobby: Sand art, Drama, Web surfing, Cycling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, Leather crafting, Creative writing

Introduction: My name is Pres. Carey Rath, I am a faithful, funny, vast, joyous, lively, brave, glamorous person who loves writing and wants to share my knowledge and understanding with you.