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\r\n\tElectronic Intifada reported:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tStudent workers at the University of California have voted by a landslide to support the Palestinian-led boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe votes, which were cast on 4 December by members of UAW Local 2865, resulted in 65 percent, or 1,411 members voting in support of a BDS resolution against 35 percent, or 749 members, voting against.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tUAW Local 2865 has thus become the first labor union in the US to join the BDS movement.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe union represents 13,000 student workers in the University of California system. It joins a growing number of student governments, academic associations and activist organizations in the US which have pledged to hold Israel accountable for violations of human rights and to end the complicity by corporations and universities which profit from such violations.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe ballots asked union members to cast their vote to call on the University of California and UAW International to divest their holdings from Israeli state institutions and international companies “complicit in severe and ongoing human rights violations as part of the Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people.”<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tUAW International is the central body of the United Auto Workers union, to which UAW Local 2865 is affiliated.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tMembers were also able to tick a box saying that they would personally refuse to take part in any “research, conferences, events, exchange programs, or other activities that are sponsored” by Israeli institutions, a voluntary personal pledge.<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tFifty-two percent of the voting members signed on to the personal academic boycott pledge, UAW Local 2865 states.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2014-12-13 17:56:19","content_date_finish":"2014-12-13 17:56:19","content_date_register":"2014-12-13 17:56:19","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"123941","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"2252899640","attach_date_register":"2014-12-13 17:56:22","attach_id":"124650","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"390","attach_img_height":"250","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"135","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 17:21:23","attach_title":"More US students support BDS movement","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]