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It was stupid that the UAW endorsed Biden. However, the UAW first called for a ceasefire on December 1, 2023. UAW members has supported many of the ceasefire protests and UAW members attended many of the protests. UAW supported the ceasefire university encampments.

There has been UAW involvement in the ceasefire movement to the extent that members of the federal government targetted the UAW for taking a stance against Israel's war on Gaza. The feds have been harassing the UAW for supporting the Gaza ceasefire movement since December, including bring bogus charges against the union.

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The evening before, according to a source familiar with the conversation, Barofsky called Fain and urged him to rethink the union position. Barofsky said that it had pained him to see the UAW’s wheel logo and anti-war protests where UAW members were present, and he told Fain there had been repeated instances of antisemitism at those protests. Barofsky told Fain he was not calling as the federal monitor, who has nearly unchecked power over the union, but merely in his personal capacity.

Fain told Barofsky, the source said, that the ceasefire resolution was in no way antisemitic or even pro-Palestinian, but simply an expression of the union’s desire for peace. Fain added that that it was impossible for the monitor to call the union president in a strictly personal capacity, given the power dynamic at play, but that the union intended to stand by its call for a ceasefire and he would be appearing at the press conference on Capitol Hill the next day.

On February 11, according to an email sent to Barofsky by Benjamin Dictor, a UAW attorney, the Anti-Defamation League wrote to Barofsky and “complained about the Union’s demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and in particular the actions of Local 7902 in support of same.”

The UAW board held its next quarterly meeting the week of February 19, and this time Barofsky joined remotely, having missed the meeting when the ceasefire resolution was voted on. A source at the meeting said union officials confronted him about the inappropriate lobbying on an issue that is not within his remit. Barofsky defended his position, arguing that the ADL was an unimpeachable authority on the question. That Barofsky continued debating the union’s position on a ceasefire stunned the board members.

On Friday, February 23, the UAW lawyer Dictor sent Barofsky a blistering letter after the board meetings ended, telling the monitor that the union was flabbergasted at the breach of ethics. “You called President Fain and introduced your conversation with President Fain as one that was ‘strictly on a personal level’ during which time you shared with President Fain your personal concerns about the Union’s position on the crisis in Gaza,” he wrote. “Your call to President Fain on an issue so blatantly outside of the Monitor’s jurisdiction was inappropriate as your Office holds disproportionate power over the UAW.

On February 29, just six days after the UAW sent its letter to Barofsky complaining about his improper lobbying, Barofsky sent the UAW a sweeping demand for documents, saying he was opening an investigation into Fain over a dispute Fain had with the secretary treasurer. That letter was made public in a court filing by Barofsky this week.

On Tuesday, the assault on the UAW over its Gaza ceasefire call became bipartisan. Republicans in the House convened a hearing with the stated goal of confronting “rampant antisemitism” in American unions, but which focused largely on a more militant, pro-Palestine UAW local that called for a ceasefire.

Barofsky has only upped the attack on Fain since then. The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Barofsky is “probing new allegations against President Shawn Fain, including that he made demands to benefit his domestic partner and her sister, according to a court filing Monday.”