End Complicity With Israeli Genocide and Imperialist Wars
UAWD Amendment for
the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention
End Complicity With Israeli Genocide and Imperialist Wars
Amendments to Articles 2, 7, 23, 50
UAW as an American labor organization is inextricably linked with portions of the American imperial project. Supporting the workers of the world means standing against American imperialism and developing an anti-imperialist membership through a variety of ways: by divesting from Israel Bonds, by severing ties with the Zionist pseudo-labor entity “Histadrut”, withholding endorsement of any political candidate who supports funding for a genocide, and supporting workers in the arms industry who carry out labor actions opposed to American imperialism.
Amendment Summary
- Be it resolved that Article 2, Section 6(a) shall be amended by adding: “The UAW will not be complicit with any organization that promotes any form of supremacy, such as the Histadrut.”
- Be it resolved that Article 7, Section 2 shall be amended by adding: “No UAW funds shall be invested in Israel Bonds”
- Be it resolved that Article 23 shall be amended by adding a new section: “The UAW will not endorse political candidates who support weapons for Israel, or are otherwise complicit in Israeli genocide” or who support imperialist wars or regime change
- Be it resolved that Article 50 shall be amended by adding a new section: “Members who take job action that interrupts the research or manufacture of weapons destined for Israel or imperialist warzones shall receive financial assistance from the UAW as needed for the duration of such action and any retaliatory termination, layoff or disciplinary time off”
Background
- It is long overdue to implement the demands voiced in the 1973 Arab worker-led demonstrations and wildcat strikes, for divestment from Israel Bonds and severing ties with the Histadrut.
- The UAW must protect members in weapons research and manufacturing who use their strategic power to stop US-backed Israeli genocide and oppose other American imperialist endeavors around the globe.
- Our compass includes the global trade union calls for solidarity from Palestinian labor, and the concrete action of workers in Italy, Spain, France, Greece, Sweden, Morocco, and elsewhere.
A CLASS STRUGGLE APPROACH
- The entire UAW—including the IEB—must take meaningful steps to use our unique position at the workplace and beyond for labor action against a system which extracts wealth from the working class and uses it for genocide, rather than social needs like jobs, housing, education, healthcare.
- One of the many aims of imperialist ventures is the destabilization of nations and peoples to guarantee the Western monopolization of resource extraction and commodity production around the globe. American workers benefit from unequal trade backstopped by violence. Unions like UAW must support any and all workers under its banner who fight back against imperial machinations on their shop floors.
OPPOSITION FROM UAW IEB
- The UAW IEB has made statements calling on a ceasefire in Gaza and arms embargo against Israel, but have not backed this with any action to end the genocide.
- The UAW IEB has previously voted down divestment from Israel Bonds, based on vague arguments about the financial cost of divestment, which were never fully explained. Municipalities and cities (including NYC) have carried out divestment through non-reinvestment, without any financial repercussions.
- A class-struggle approach to anti-imperial shop floor actions flies in the face of business unionism, which would rather entrench the gains of American workers at home without considering the death and violence put in motion around the globe to secure those benefits. UAW bureaucrats have no interest in confronting this global system of inequality and our place in it.
