Rank and filers can organize unions to join the encampments, strike for Palestine and turn words into action.
Demonstrators march on the Northrop Mall to call for a ceasefire in Gaza before setting up an encampment on the lawn on April 29, 2024, on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis.of this century is rocking the country, denouncing the genocide of Palestinians and calling for divestment from Israel and an end to the war on Gaza.
Workers and their unions are seeing this threat. They’re heading into the encampments like at Columbia, UPenn, and CUNY to stand with the student movement. In NYC, the UAW held a march in solidarity with its arrested members. Still, union leaders haven’t yet called us all out in large numbers to join the struggle.
It’s not just our numbers. Unions in cities like New York stand at most of the chokepoints of the economy: shipping goods on trucks, transporting workers and people on buses, and beyond. Union teachers, too, and teachers in public K-12 schools, could be mobilized to join the struggle as well.There’s inertia in our unions though, especially at the top, moving against more active support from below. Although theto win gains for workers.
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