UAW convention votes to divest from Israeli bonds

Members of the United Auto Workers voted Thursday, June 18, to remove hundreds of thousands of dollars in the union's investments in Israeli bonds because of the country's war in Gaza. The vote to divest came at the union's 39th Constitutional Convention at Huntington Place in downtown Detroit as one of the union's last orders of business. The measure was passed by a raised-hand vote of the thousand-or-so delegates, amalgamated from UAW locals across the United States. As early as December 2023, the union had criticized Israel's prosecution of the war, which started with an attack on Israel on Oct....