Solidarity with the Resistance of the Ukrainian People! Russian Troops Out Now!
Resolution pased by the CWA Local 7250 Executive Board, April 13th 2022.
Communications Workers of America Local 7250 is based in Minneapolis MN and organizes workers at AT&T and DirecTV.
WHEREAS Ukraine has long been under the domination of Russian Czars, the Soviet Union, and now Putin;
WHEREAS this has meant the suppression of Ukrainian culture, the exploitation of workers, and the abuse of the land and resources;
WHEREAS Ukrainian people have continually fought for freedom and self-determination, including the 2014 Revolution of Dignity that overthrew an oppressive Russian puppet government;
WHEREAS the ongoing bloody 2022 invasion and occupation of Ukraine by Russia’s military is an unprovoked unjust, and immoral attempt to crush independent Ukraine – reminiscent of the U.S. government’s own ongoing attempts to dominate smaller and poorer countries around the globe;
WHEREAS this invasion has already killed thousands of civilians, destroyed cities and infrastructure, and created millions of refugees;
WHEREAS the heroic popular resistance of the Ukrainian people has frustrated Russia’s plans and inspired working-class people world-wide;
And WHEREAS a courageous and bold anti-war movement has emerged in Russia that shows the Russian people are not our enemies but important allies
BE IT RESOLVED that CWA 7250 calls on the Labor Movement and workers everywhere to give our full solidarity to the resistance of the Ukrainian people and demand Russian Troops Out Now!
Further Resolved, that we will look to offer material support (modest as it may be) to Ukrainian unions and workers organizations involved in the fight.
Further Resolved that we call on all countries to open their borders to war refugees from Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan and others.
Further Resolved that we call on the United States and the IMF to cancel all of Ukraine’s foreign debt of some $125 billion – these resources should be used to fight the invasion and rebuild from the devastation not to pay interest to the big banks.
Further Resolved that we will support the local Ukrainian community, unions, and activists who organize solidarity rallies here.
And finally, be it Resolved that since we are not hypocrites we must speak up and stand against all imperialism – including that of the United States – because all peoples deserve to be free and determine their own destiny.
For more information on Ukraine:
Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
organizes solidarity and provides information in support of the Ukrainian labor movement
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
Ukrainian human rights education and monitoring group
Antiauthoritarian volunteer network organized to help all progressive forces in society to counter imperialist aggression against Ukraine.
Commons
Ukrainian "egalitarian and anticapitalist" journal
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CWA Local 7250 2021 Convention Resolutions
1. Resolution in Solidarity with the Protests in Cuba
2. Resolution for National Day of Action Against AT&T's outsourcing, job cuts, and union-busting
3. Resolution for National Cross-Contract AT&T Strike Committee
4. Resolution Against Labor Laws that Block Effective Strikes and Handcuff Workers Struggles
1. Resolution in Solidarity with the Protests in Cuba
The Communications Workers of America Local 7250 stands with the Cuban people protesting for freedom since the events of July 11 across several cities in Cuba.
In the first international call between our two nations and parent companies in 1917 where Cuba replied," I don't understand you." CWA 7250 understands /we come from a rich history since the beginning; with our founder Joseph Beirne, our union helped union leaders from The Federacion Sindical de Telefonos Cuba escape Cuba once Castro purged the labor movement in Cuba in the early '60s. CWA has always stood in full solidarity with Cuban workers and with the Cuban people in their struggle for labor, human and democratic rights.
CWA 7250 condemns the Cuban government's continued imprisonment, arrest, torture, and other acts of unconscionable harassment against its own people, the working class. CWA ask the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves and using violence and terror. We ask the CWA and all other unions and movements for justice in this country to give solidarity to the protest movement, grassroots organizations, and independent unions in Cuba - and not to the dictatorship.
Resolution offered by Hector Capote & Jandy Santoya and approved by CWA 7250 membership 07/21/2021
2. Resolution for National Day of Action Against AT&T's outsourcing, job cuts, and union-busting
Whereas AT&T promised to create 7,000 new jobs when lobbying for the 2017 Trump corporate tax cuts, and
Whereas AT&T instead has CUT more than 42,000 jobs,and
Whereas among these are the over 500 unionized Retail stores that have been closed and often replaced by non-union "authorized retailers" with the same branding but with substandard wages, benefits and safety conditions, and
Whereas there are real people behind these numbers like Mali Flores, a single mom of three children, who worked at the AT&T store in West St. Paul, MN throughout the COVID pandemic. The West St. Paul store was the only fully bilingual store in the state of Minnesota that attracted Spanish-speaking clientele from across the Twin Cities metro area. Mali and her co-workers not only worked through the pandemic but also survived an armed robbery - for which they were only given one day off. A few months later the company closed the well-performing store and flipped it to a non-union "authorized retailer", and
Whereas CWA 7250 has initiated the #DefendOurJobs campaign to publicly oppose AT&T's attacks on unionized workers, including public protest actions, pressure on elected officials, and preparing for job actions next year, and
Whereas there is a need to expand actions against AT&T across the whole country to highlight the attacks the company is carrying out and CWA's willingness to fight back, therefore,
Be it RESOLVED that CWA shall call for, organize, and carry-out a DAY of ACTION in December 2021 against AT&T's outsourcing, job cuts, and union-busting, involving a range of different kinds of actions across the country fitting the needs and abilities of Locals in the area.
3. Resolution for National Cross-Contract AT&T Strike Committee
Whereas AT&T has successfully used the many separate contracts with our union to divide our members and neutralize our full strength, and
Whereas in 2022 major contracts representing AT&T Mobility, AT&T Midwest, AT&T Legacy, DirecTV and NIC will expire, and
Whereas CWA is an industrial union that has always believed in exercising workers power across the telecom industry, and
Whereas there is strength in numbers and in preparation, therefore
Be it RESOLVED that CWA will constitute a 10-person AT&T Strike Committee elected by the Locals representing expiring AT&T contracts in 2022. The mission of the committee will be to plan and be prepared to execute a powerful strike that would shut down AT&T and win the full, just demands of CWA members across all AT&T contracts.
No Justice, No Dial Tone!
4. Resolution Against Labor Laws that Block Effective Strikes and Handcuff Workers Struggles
Whereas U.S. labor law prohibits jurisdictional strikes, wildcat strikes, solidarity or political strikes, secondary boycotts, secondary and mass picketing - the very tactics that built the great industrial unions like the CWA in this country, and
Whereas these laws continue to restrain the U.S. labor movement for the benefit of a few billionaires and their corporations, and prevent the working class from living full, empowered lives with necessary resources for housing, healthcare, education, and recreation
Whereas CWA agrees with the great liberation organizer Martin Luther King Jr., that "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws” and so therefore
Be it Resolved that CWA opposes Taft-Hartley and all unjust anti-labor laws and recognizes that they must not only be overturned legislatively but through the active defiance of the labor movement.
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