Attorneys representing the union responded to the monitor’s June 10 report, asserting the UAW’s right to review these documents before releasing them to the monitor. Moreover, the UAW has already granted him access to over 70,000 requested documents and has arranged 30 interviews with union staff and officers.

Clearly, these attacks from the U.S. government are aimed at deterring unions from taking even a mild political position against […] apartheid and/or the U.S. war machine.

The capitalist state may also be intent on punishing the UAW for its revival of class struggle unionism, as exemplified by the powerful strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis last year.

Unions have every right to oppose the genocide in Palestine, and they have every right to fight the corporate bosses.