The Washington Free Beacon wrote about labor unions prioritizing anti-Israel activism over worker’s rights.
HLLI represented a graduate student at The University of California who opposed UAW 4811’s unlawful strike on behalf of so-called “Palestinian Solidarity Encampments.”
“You basically have auto workers across the nation subsidizing these trust fund graduate students who happen to be members of the UAW,” said Ted Frank, the director of the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute, which represented a Jewish graduate student within the UC system who filed an amicus brief opposing the “Palestinian Solidarity Encampment” strike.
Those grad students, Frank notes, launched a strike in 2022 to obtain significant increases in wages, childcare subsidies, and paid leave—provisions that he said are “bankrupting the University of California.” Shortly thereafter, “they tried to go on strike again, but this time, it’s for the right to discriminate against Jews with these protests.”
Read more at The Washington Free Beacon.