Veterans & Labor for Sensible Priorities

 

The following 64 labor organizations representing more than 550,000 workers, and 21 Veterans For Peace chapters, have endorsed the People Over the Pentagon Campaign.  This campaign is to cut excessive Pentagon spending by $100 billion and make the money available to address pressing human needs such as health care, housing, education and veterans’ benefits.  The pay and benefits of military employees and veterans would not be cut.  Our nation would be safer because the biggest threats to our security are economic inequality, racism, and climate change.  The Pentagon has failed seven consecutive audits and in unable to account for 61% of its $3.1 trillion in assets, so we know that our tax dollars can be put to better use!  Endorsed by Veterans for Peace.  Ask your labor organization or veterans’ group to endorse it! 

We welcome your questions, comments, participation, notification of labor and veteran endorsements, and requests for speakers. Email: labor@veteransforpeace.org 


LABOR ENDORSERS SUPPORTING PEOPLE OVER PENTAGON:

National Unions:

  • American Postal Workers Union (APWU)
    • Union of Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE)

National Labor Constituency Groups:

  • National Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW)

State-wide Union Organizations:

  • New Jersey Industrial Union Council
  • American Federation of Teachers (AFT): AFT Massachusetts; AFT Vermont; AFT Washington; AFT Wisconsin; California Federation of Teachers
  • New Mexico State Postal Workers Union

Regional Labor Organizations:

  • American Fed. of State, County, & Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 47 (Phila.)

Local Unions:

  • American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 704 (Chicago, IL)
  • AFT locals: #1 (Chicago Teachers Union); #66 (Boston Teachers Union, MA); #340 (Baltimore Teachers Union); #1021 (United Teachers of Los Angeles, CA); # 1931 (San Diego, CA); #2026 (Phila.); #2121 (San Francisco); # 2190 (United University Professions, NY); #2334 (Professional Staff Congress, NY); # 3220 (Madison, WI); # 3544 (OR); # 4531 (Phila.); # 4848 (WI); #6290 (Phila.); # 6352 (Glendora, CA)
  • APWU Locals: # 10 (NY Metro); #47 (East Bay Area, CA); # 73 (San Jose, CA); # 78 (Oakland, CA);# 89 (Darby, PA); #268 (Lehigh Valley Area, PA); # 4553 (Central MA Area); #7048 (Phila.)
  • Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 1081 (NJ)
  • Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 1953 (CT)
  • Teamsters Local 623 (Philadelphia)
  • UNITE-HERE Local 274 (Philadelphia); Local 634 (Philadelphia)

Labor Retiree Organizations:

  • AFL-CIO Philadelphia Labor Council Retirees; APWU Local 89 Retirees (Philadelphia); AFSCME DC 47 Retirees (Philadelphia); AFT Local 1931R (San Diego); AFT Local 2026R (Philadelphia) Retirees; AFT Local 2121R Retirees (San Francisco) 

Regional and Local Labor Constituency Groups:

  • Phillip Randolph Institute, Phila. Chapter

  • AFRAM Caucus of SEIU Healthcare PA
  • Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Phila. Chapter
  • Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter
  • Coalition of Labor Union Women Chapters: New York City, Philadelphia, Sacramento, San Diego, San   Francisco, Southwestern Pennsylvania
  • Dorothy Day Labor Forum (Spokane)
  • Labor/Community Alliance of South Florida
  • Tom Paine Brigade (Morristown, NJ)

 

To learn how to sign up your labor organization, or for more information contact John Braxton (jwbraxton@gmail.com; (215/796-4933) or use this link: https://bit.ly/VL4SP-covermsg


VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORTING PEOPLE OVER PENTAGON

National Organizations:

  • Veterans For Peace

Veterans for Peace Chapters:

  • Chapter 1 – Maine
  • Chapter 7 – Los Angeles, CA
  • Chapter 14 – Gainesville, FL
  • Chapter 27 – Twin Cities, MN
  • Chapter 31 – Philadelphia, PA
  • Chapter 34 - New York, NY
  • Chapter 55 – Santa Fe, NM
  • Chapter 63 – Albuquerque, NM
  • Chapter 69 – San Francisco, CA
  • Chapter 74 – Detroit, MI
  • Chapter 80 – Duluth, MN
  • Chapter 91 – San Diego, CA
  • Chapter 101 – South Bay/Peninsula, CA
  • Chapter 102 – Milwaukee, WI
  • Chapter 106 – Dallas/North TX
  • Chapter 109 - Olympia, WA
  • Chapter 112 – Ventura, CA
  • Chapter 132 – Corvallis-Albany, OR
  • Chapter 157 – North Carolina Triangle
  • Chapter 178 – No. Colorado
  • Chapter 180 – Fresno, CA

Check out the 4” x 6” card  https://tinyurl.com/VL4SP-palmcard that VL4SP has passed out by the hundreds at labor gatherings.

Photo Credit:  David Bacon

Armistice Day, 2024 – Anti-War march joins Workers’ Strike: 400-500 people in an interfaith, immigrant rights, labor and veterans’ coalition marched to the San Francisco offices of our two Senators, to pressure them to vote to block the $20 billion in weapons the US is sending Israel. The march swung by the Palace Hotel to support the strikers of UNITE-HERE Local 2. Local 2 has endorsed a Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution.


The Palace Hotel, formerly the Sheraton Palace, is the site of the largest civil rights campaign in San Francisco history. In March 1964, 1,500 people sat in the lobby, leading to 167 arrests. The next day, the 35 major hotels agreed to end discrimination in hiring.

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