Resolution for an Arms Embargo to End the U.S.-Backed Israeli Occupation and Genocide in Palestine
Adopted September 16, 2025 by the Joint Council
Whereas Israel has directly killed over 62,000 people in Gaza including over 18,000 children, and has indirectly killed over 104,000 people through its blockades on food aid and its systematic destruction of Gazan medical facilities and water and sanitation infrastructure, and
Whereas on August 31, 2025, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) declared that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Conventionfor the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948), that Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as defined in international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and
Whereas on August 22, 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, the United Nations world Food Programme (WFP), and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed more than half a million people (22% of the total population) in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread, entirely man-made starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis, and
Whereas the unnecessary transport of arms, ammunition, and explosives to foreign militaries, and a recent shipment of more than a dozen tons of nitrocellulose to Israel from JFK Airport had catastrophic potential to injure thousands, and
Whereas, the U.S. has spent at least $22 billion supporting Israel’s military operations in the first year of the genocide alone, while working Americans continue to suffer from a lack of healthcare, affordable housing, and social services, and
Whereas Maersk, the logistics company that has shipped the most military cargo by sea to Israel, is also attacking workers’ rights at home, and
Whereas unions in Palestine and professional associations have called on unions worldwide to “Stop Arming Israel," and workers and their unions around the world, such as in Belgium, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain, and Sweden, have responded to the call, and
Whereas a number of rank and file workers in ALAA-UAW Local 2325 are active in the Labor for Palestine National Network, including the 2325 Labor for Palestine rank and file caucus, and
Whereas ALAA-UAW Local 2325 has consistently defended Palestinian human rights and the rights of working class people worldwide to defend and uphold international human rights, to uphold the most basic principle of labor solidarity that An Injury to One Is An Injury to All, as reflected in adoption of the following resolutions and motions:
Resolution on Divestment from Israel Bonds and on Transparency in Investments funded through Union Membership Dues in July 2022;
Resolution Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza, an End to the Israeli Occupation of Palestine, and Support for Workers’ Political Speech in December 2023;
Resolution in Solidarity With Workers In A Better NYLAG and UAW Local 4811 Organizing for Palestinian Liberation And Against Management Repression in September 2024;
Resolution Demanding the Cessation of All Deportation Proceedings Against Mahmoud Khalil in March 2025; and a
Joint Council motion to refuse “any monetary or other settlement that undermine’s the union’s established position that we are in opposition to Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza or equates opposition to Israel or its ongoing genocide in Gaza withantisemitism” in August 2025.
Therefore, be it resolved that ALAA-UAW Local 2325:
Calls for an immediate arms embargo on Israel and any country that is committing war crimes, and
Affirms its support of the General Federation of Palestinian Trade Unions-Gaza (PGFTU-Gaza) and their 2025 Labor Day urgent appeal to all unions, labor, and human rights organizations in the United States and around the world to mobilize all “energy, resources, efforts, and initiatives to ban Israeli weapons of mass murder, and to use all possible means to halt the ongoing holocaust to which our Palestinian people are subjected daily, and to prevent the US administration from supplying this occupation with weapons”, and
Endorses the Labor for an Arms Embargo campaign to organize the supermajority of Americans who want to end military aid to Israel, and
Endorses Break the Chain, a local movement to end shipments of military supplies to Israel through our ports, airports, and streets, and
Encourages ALAA workers to form shop-level and union-level committees to organize and coordinate action towards an arms embargo, modeled after the Contract Action Teams (CATs) and Super Contract Action Team (Super CAT) during ALAA’s sectoral bargaining campaign, and
Encourages ALAA workers to organize criminal, employment, deportation, and all necessary legal defense assistance for workers across the city retaliated against for solidarity with Palestine, through whatever means appropriate and feasible, and
Calls for investment of money currently being spent on foreign weapons aid (whether such foreign aid is deemed “defensive” or “offensive”) towards serving the needs of working people at home, and
Reiterates its calls on U.S. labor bodies, including the UAW International Executive Board, to honor the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) picket line by divesting union dues from Israel Bonds and reinvesting union dues in life-affirming institutions, and
ALAA-UAW Local 2325 defends the rights of people everywhere to live free lives regardless of their immigration status, ethnicity, race, gender, or sexual orientation and, per its Bylaws, remains committed to developing “a trade union consciousness rooted in class struggle unionism, Black liberation, trans and queer liberation, feminism, antiracism, abolitionism, internationalism, anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, disability justice, migrant justice, housing justice, and other developing social justice movements aimed at improving the living and working conditions of all poor and working class people.”