The voice of UAWD, from the frontlines of the class struggle, by and for UAW members
In 2024, UAW Monitor Neil Barofsky carried out an effort to intervene in UAW policy decisions and overturn the UAW’s opposition to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Barofsky should be replaced for attacking the political independence of the UAW and violating his duties under the consent decree.
The UAW Monitor has repeatedly interfered in our union’s affairs and influenced the ongoing election for top UAW leadership, continuing a long history of state attacks that have weakened labor unions and protected profits. To build independent working-class power to fight our bosses, we must oppose state intervention and defend our unions as democratic organizations.
For the US labor movement, the UAW’s divestment from Israel bonds, decided by members at the union’s 39th Constitutional Convention, in June 2026, after decades of rank-and-file organizing, marks a significant step toward making international solidarity a reality—but there’s still a long way to go.
The six leaders of UAWD’s team at the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention discuss the class-struggle strategy that enabled UAWD to lead the effort to divest the UAW from Israel bonds. Standing on the shoulders of decades of Palestine solidarity organizing, the win was made possible through the past year of organizing Local UAWD Chapters grounded in shop-floor struggle and the development of a UAWD ConCon program, which featured resolutions to enable rank-and-file militancy to fight layoffs, fight ICE, and in support of Palestine.
After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing.
