'We join the calls for an immediate cease-fire, the release of hostages, and urgently needed massive humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza. The cries of humanity demand nothing less.'
The American Postal Workers Union on Wednesday became the largest U.S. union to call for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, joining a growing labor movement mobilization against Israel's assault on the Palestinian enclave. Leaders of the APWU, which represents more than 200,000 U.S. Postal Service employees and close to 2,000 mail workers in the private sector, said in a statement that their union is 'shocked and saddened by the tragic and ongoing violence in Israel and Palestine.
Labor Notes reported last week that after the Thurston-Lewis-Mason Central Labor Council in Olympia, Washington unanimously approved a resolution urging its parent federation to 'publicly support an immediate cease-fire and equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis,' the national AFL-CIO told council officers that the measure 'goes beyond the position that the AFL-CIO has taken' and asked if they intended to 'retract the resolution.
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