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King_David

(14,851 posts)
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 10:22 AM Dec 2015

BDS resolution overturned by UC grad students’ national union: It discriminates against Jews

Foes of the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel got a big boost Wednesday when a national union told a local chapter it couldn’t adopt a BDS resolution.

United Auto Workers (UAW) International Union, which oversees U.S. chapters, granted an appeal from a member of the University of California student-worker group Informed Grads, the student group said in a release yesterday.

The student had complained to UAW International that the UC chapter (Local 2865), which represents all grad student workers in the UC system, did not have authority to speak on the issue for its members. The union agreed .



http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25552/




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BDS resolution overturned by UC grad students’ national union: It discriminates against Jews (Original Post) King_David Dec 2015 OP
Those auto workers think they have more sense than UC grad students? 6chars Dec 2015 #1
Ha King_David Dec 2015 #2

6chars

(3,967 posts)
1. Those auto workers think they have more sense than UC grad students?
Sun Dec 20, 2015, 11:03 AM
Dec 2015

The UC grad students better start teaching auto workers about the real world. Just kidding.

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