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UAW Members Demand that UAW Rescind Endorsement of Zionist /Billionaire Shill Scott Wiener
Rank and file members of UAW 4811 and UAW 2035 are demanding that the UAW 4811, Region 6 and the UAW rescind their support of Zionist billionaire shill Scott Wiener. Wiener who is being funded by the Zionists has played a role in targeting UC faculty and UAW 4811 members who have opposed the genocide in Gaza.
UAW rank and file members from UAW 4811 and 2035 are demanding that UAW Region 6 & 4811 rescind their endorsement of San Francisco Zionist politician Scott Wiener.
The decision to support Wiener was done without any democratic vote or discussion with the membership and the SEIU has withdrawn support for Wiener because he supports genocidal Israeli state but also has opposed the tax on billionaires in San Francisco and a statewide one time tax on billionaires.
Wiener supports continued US funding of the Israeli genocidal regime and also supports gentrification, opposes single payer and opposes taxes on the billionaires.
The UAW 4811 and UAW Region 6 without a vote of their members are supporting Wiener because they say that he supports a state bond that would fund UC research projects
and also fund biotech companies.
This press conference took place at UAW 4811 offices in Berkeley, California on June 1, 2026.
Additional Media:
Pro-Israel PAC drops $60K for Scott Wiener who is also supported by UAW 4811 & UAW Region 6
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/san-francisco-june-election-sergey-brin/
Labor Zionism, Israel, US Labor & Imperialism With Labor Historian Jeff Schuhrke
https://youtu.be/FdS80qLTMZk
Zionist Senator Scott Wiener joins Shawn Fain of UAW, UC President Milliken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97o81Z031E&t=12s
California Jewish legislators demand that UC and CSU systems protect Jewish students
https://jweekly.com/2023/11/10/jewish-legislators-demand-that-uc-and-csu-protect-jewish-students/
UAW Partnerning With Zionist Supporter Scott Wiener Who Helped Push SB 715 Attacking Supporters Of Palestine Senator Wiener,
UC, UAW Announce $23 Billion Bond To Fund Scientific Research While Requiring Drug Discounts For Californians
https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-uc-uaw-announce-23-billion-bond-fund-scientific-research-while-requiring-drug
Zionist CA State Senator Scott Wiener Protested At KQED Congressional Debate
https://youtu.be/YkqNzPKNSpc
No Genocide By Israel In Gaza According to SF Demo Party Politician Scott Weiner
https://youtu.be/upXMZeEomzY
UCSF Dr. Rupa Marya Targeted By Zionist Scott Weiner & Fired For Opposing Genocide In Palestine
https://youtu.be/Yr1DDEphSQE
Weiner Supporters Go Crazy At Jane Kim Rally In SF-There Is No Working Class Housing Crisis In SF?
https://youtu.be/o_1xxLF35fw
Production Of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
Rank and file members of 4811 also issued a statement.
And UAW region 6 (of which our union, UAW 4811, is a part) continues to maintain its endorsement of state senator Scott Wiener in his run for CA-11 Congressional Representative.
But Scott Wiener is not a labor candidate. He is not a progressive candidate. He is a politician whose career has been built on serving the interests of developers, policing student protest, and defending Zionist institutions.
As California students established Gaza solidarity encampments and demanded an end to U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine, Wiener emerged as one of the leading political figures pushing for repression. He championed SB 1287, legislation requiring universities to impose new restrictions on campus demonstrations and strengthen disciplinary mechanisms directed against protest activity.
Wiener has repeatedly aligned himself against Palestine solidarity organizing. He condemned efforts to establish academic boycotts of Israeli institutions, opposed divestment initiatives, and used his office to pressure universities and public institutions confronting growing demands to break ties with Israel. He is a self-described Zionist, and his political record reflects that commitment.
Wiener has played a similarly destructive role in battles over ethnic studies and public education. He has repeatedly aligned himself with efforts to police how Palestine, Zionism, and Israeli state violence are discussed in classrooms. Legislation such as AB 715 was promoted as a measure against antisemitism. In practice, educators, ethnic studies scholars, and civil liberties advocates warned that it was an attempt to stifle discussion of Palestine and place teachers under increased scrutiny for presenting Palestinian history and perspectives.
Nor is Wiener's economic record any better. He is the political architect of California's YIMBY movement, a project built on the premise that deregulating private development will somehow solve a housing crisis created by the market itself. His legislation has consistently advanced the interests of developers and weakened local democratic control. This is not a labor vision of housing. It is a developer vision of housing. The labor movement should not be endorsing politicians whose political base is organized around developers, venture capital, and real estate interests.
Supporters of the endorsement — which was announced without a vote or even a discussion in the membership — point to Wiener’s involvement in efforts to secure funding for scientific research and public higher education. For academic workers facing the consequences of federal cuts, that concern is real. But labor cannot build power by tying itself to politicians who offer limited concessions while remaining aligned with anti-labor forces.
The answer to funding cuts is not dependence on Scott Wiener. It is a stronger labor movement.
Academic workers are not the only workers under attack. Across the University of California, workers have faced layoffs, understaffing, contracting out, and austerity. AFSCME workers spent years fighting without a contract. The path forward is not endorsement politics. It is building durable solidarity across unions and developing the collective strength needed to force concessions from politicians of either party.
Working people need representatives drawn from the labor movement itself and accountable to workers rather than donors, developers, and political insiders. Every endorsement of a politician like Wiener teaches union members to place their faith in political patrons rather than their own collective power.
SEIU ultimately withdrew its endorsement of Wiener after his opposition to Proposition D, the “Overpaid CEO Tax.”UAW Region 6 and UAW 4811 should do the same. Members of UAW 4811 and Region 6 should email their local leaderships demanding that they rescind this endorsement.
The labor movement will build its power not through business unionism, not through alliances with the political establishment, but through its own organization, its own solidarity, and its own independent political voice.
Solidarity Forever,
Rank &File for a Democratic Union
The decision to support Wiener was done without any democratic vote or discussion with the membership and the SEIU has withdrawn support for Wiener because he supports genocidal Israeli state but also has opposed the tax on billionaires in San Francisco and a statewide one time tax on billionaires.
Wiener supports continued US funding of the Israeli genocidal regime and also supports gentrification, opposes single payer and opposes taxes on the billionaires.
The UAW 4811 and UAW Region 6 without a vote of their members are supporting Wiener because they say that he supports a state bond that would fund UC research projects
and also fund biotech companies.
This press conference took place at UAW 4811 offices in Berkeley, California on June 1, 2026.
Additional Media:
Pro-Israel PAC drops $60K for Scott Wiener who is also supported by UAW 4811 & UAW Region 6
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/san-francisco-june-election-sergey-brin/
Labor Zionism, Israel, US Labor & Imperialism With Labor Historian Jeff Schuhrke
https://youtu.be/FdS80qLTMZk
Zionist Senator Scott Wiener joins Shawn Fain of UAW, UC President Milliken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-97o81Z031E&t=12s
California Jewish legislators demand that UC and CSU systems protect Jewish students
https://jweekly.com/2023/11/10/jewish-legislators-demand-that-uc-and-csu-protect-jewish-students/
UAW Partnerning With Zionist Supporter Scott Wiener Who Helped Push SB 715 Attacking Supporters Of Palestine Senator Wiener,
UC, UAW Announce $23 Billion Bond To Fund Scientific Research While Requiring Drug Discounts For Californians
https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-uc-uaw-announce-23-billion-bond-fund-scientific-research-while-requiring-drug
Zionist CA State Senator Scott Wiener Protested At KQED Congressional Debate
https://youtu.be/YkqNzPKNSpc
No Genocide By Israel In Gaza According to SF Demo Party Politician Scott Weiner
https://youtu.be/upXMZeEomzY
UCSF Dr. Rupa Marya Targeted By Zionist Scott Weiner & Fired For Opposing Genocide In Palestine
https://youtu.be/Yr1DDEphSQE
Weiner Supporters Go Crazy At Jane Kim Rally In SF-There Is No Working Class Housing Crisis In SF?
https://youtu.be/o_1xxLF35fw
Production Of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
Rank and file members of 4811 also issued a statement.
And UAW region 6 (of which our union, UAW 4811, is a part) continues to maintain its endorsement of state senator Scott Wiener in his run for CA-11 Congressional Representative.
But Scott Wiener is not a labor candidate. He is not a progressive candidate. He is a politician whose career has been built on serving the interests of developers, policing student protest, and defending Zionist institutions.
As California students established Gaza solidarity encampments and demanded an end to U.S. support for Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestine, Wiener emerged as one of the leading political figures pushing for repression. He championed SB 1287, legislation requiring universities to impose new restrictions on campus demonstrations and strengthen disciplinary mechanisms directed against protest activity.
Wiener has repeatedly aligned himself against Palestine solidarity organizing. He condemned efforts to establish academic boycotts of Israeli institutions, opposed divestment initiatives, and used his office to pressure universities and public institutions confronting growing demands to break ties with Israel. He is a self-described Zionist, and his political record reflects that commitment.
Wiener has played a similarly destructive role in battles over ethnic studies and public education. He has repeatedly aligned himself with efforts to police how Palestine, Zionism, and Israeli state violence are discussed in classrooms. Legislation such as AB 715 was promoted as a measure against antisemitism. In practice, educators, ethnic studies scholars, and civil liberties advocates warned that it was an attempt to stifle discussion of Palestine and place teachers under increased scrutiny for presenting Palestinian history and perspectives.
Nor is Wiener's economic record any better. He is the political architect of California's YIMBY movement, a project built on the premise that deregulating private development will somehow solve a housing crisis created by the market itself. His legislation has consistently advanced the interests of developers and weakened local democratic control. This is not a labor vision of housing. It is a developer vision of housing. The labor movement should not be endorsing politicians whose political base is organized around developers, venture capital, and real estate interests.
Supporters of the endorsement — which was announced without a vote or even a discussion in the membership — point to Wiener’s involvement in efforts to secure funding for scientific research and public higher education. For academic workers facing the consequences of federal cuts, that concern is real. But labor cannot build power by tying itself to politicians who offer limited concessions while remaining aligned with anti-labor forces.
The answer to funding cuts is not dependence on Scott Wiener. It is a stronger labor movement.
Academic workers are not the only workers under attack. Across the University of California, workers have faced layoffs, understaffing, contracting out, and austerity. AFSCME workers spent years fighting without a contract. The path forward is not endorsement politics. It is building durable solidarity across unions and developing the collective strength needed to force concessions from politicians of either party.
Working people need representatives drawn from the labor movement itself and accountable to workers rather than donors, developers, and political insiders. Every endorsement of a politician like Wiener teaches union members to place their faith in political patrons rather than their own collective power.
SEIU ultimately withdrew its endorsement of Wiener after his opposition to Proposition D, the “Overpaid CEO Tax.”UAW Region 6 and UAW 4811 should do the same. Members of UAW 4811 and Region 6 should email their local leaderships demanding that they rescind this endorsement.
The labor movement will build its power not through business unionism, not through alliances with the political establishment, but through its own organization, its own solidarity, and its own independent political voice.
Solidarity Forever,
Rank &File for a Democratic Union
For more information:
https://youtu.be/JPfO9KV31Vk
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Statement Of UAW 2320 Rank & File Members Opposing Endorsement of Scott Wiener
To the members and leaders of NOLSW – UAW Local 2320:
We, the undersigned advocates for low-income San Franciscans, members in good
standing of NOLSW – UAW Local 2320, write to object to UAW’s endorsement of
California State Senator Scott Wiener for Representative for California Congressional
District 11. We were not consulted about, did not consent to, and will not abide by this
endorsement. Please consider this letter a formal request that you withdraw your
endorsement of Senator Wiener and make no endorsement for the California
Congressional District 11 Representative.
We have lived and worked in legislative districts governed by Senator Wiener for fifteen
years. During his tenure as County Supervisor and now State Senator, Senator Wiener
has advocated and passed legislation that favored the development of market-rate
housing over affordable housing in San Francisco in the interests of making the city a
paradise for dealers in expensive housing and extremely high income employees of
major tech corporations, including those behind artificial intelligence, which is estimated
to eliminate or ‘reshape’ up to 40% of jobs in the United States.
In particular, Senator Wiener’s opposition to San Francisco’s Overpaid CEO Tax on the
ballot for June prompted SEIU Local 1021, representing San Francisco city employees,
to withdraw their endorsement. The measure, Proposition D on the San Francisco ballot
this June, would tax companies where the CEO is paid more than one hundred times
the salary of their median employee to fill the city’s $650m deficit to save services and
prevent layoffs. By way of explanation, SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford opined
that supporting Prop D, “should be an easy choice for San Francisco’s
congressmember when it means saving the city’s mental health programs, public
hospitals, and emergency response services.”
In addition to his non-support of Prop D, Senator Wiener's legislative record is a record
of direct attacks on the low-income San Franciscans whom we are dedicated to
supporting. He has led campaigns that diminished our client’s access to housing. He
has championed increased policing of San Francisco’s unhoused population, people
who are already subject to every kind of abuse. We will not vote for him.
Given Senator Wiener’s record, we are surprised that endorsing him was even
considered. Endorsements like this that make our jobs more difficult and less secure
result from undemocratic processes. It is clear that our union is in need of substantial
reform of its method for endorsing candidates and spending our dues money.In view of the
foregoing, we, the undersigned advocates for San Francisco’s remarkably
diverse low-income population, formally request that UAW withdraw their endorsement
of Senator Wiener and make no endorsement in the primary.
Sincerely,
Legal Assistance to the Elderly Staff Association
1. 2. UAW Endorsement of Senator Wiener:
https://bluevoterguide.org/endorser-org/United
To the members and leaders of NOLSW – UAW Local 2320:
We, the undersigned advocates for low-income San Franciscans, members in good
standing of NOLSW – UAW Local 2320, write to object to UAW’s endorsement of
California State Senator Scott Wiener for Representative for California Congressional
District 11. We were not consulted about, did not consent to, and will not abide by this
endorsement. Please consider this letter a formal request that you withdraw your
endorsement of Senator Wiener and make no endorsement for the California
Congressional District 11 Representative.
We have lived and worked in legislative districts governed by Senator Wiener for fifteen
years. During his tenure as County Supervisor and now State Senator, Senator Wiener
has advocated and passed legislation that favored the development of market-rate
housing over affordable housing in San Francisco in the interests of making the city a
paradise for dealers in expensive housing and extremely high income employees of
major tech corporations, including those behind artificial intelligence, which is estimated
to eliminate or ‘reshape’ up to 40% of jobs in the United States.
In particular, Senator Wiener’s opposition to San Francisco’s Overpaid CEO Tax on the
ballot for June prompted SEIU Local 1021, representing San Francisco city employees,
to withdraw their endorsement. The measure, Proposition D on the San Francisco ballot
this June, would tax companies where the CEO is paid more than one hundred times
the salary of their median employee to fill the city’s $650m deficit to save services and
prevent layoffs. By way of explanation, SEIU 1021 President Theresa Rutherford opined
that supporting Prop D, “should be an easy choice for San Francisco’s
congressmember when it means saving the city’s mental health programs, public
hospitals, and emergency response services.”
In addition to his non-support of Prop D, Senator Wiener's legislative record is a record
of direct attacks on the low-income San Franciscans whom we are dedicated to
supporting. He has led campaigns that diminished our client’s access to housing. He
has championed increased policing of San Francisco’s unhoused population, people
who are already subject to every kind of abuse. We will not vote for him.
Given Senator Wiener’s record, we are surprised that endorsing him was even
considered. Endorsements like this that make our jobs more difficult and less secure
result from undemocratic processes. It is clear that our union is in need of substantial
reform of its method for endorsing candidates and spending our dues money.In view of the
foregoing, we, the undersigned advocates for San Francisco’s remarkably
diverse low-income population, formally request that UAW withdraw their endorsement
of Senator Wiener and make no endorsement in the primary.
Sincerely,
Legal Assistance to the Elderly Staff Association
1. 2. UAW Endorsement of Senator Wiener:
https://bluevoterguide.org/endorser-org/United
For more information:
https://bluevoterguide.org/endorser-org/Un...
The UAW & AFSCME leadership want to put billions of dollars of public taxpayers money into the pockets of private biotech companies in California.
UAW Supported Bill SB 895 Would Put Billions of Public Money Into Private Bio-Tech Companies Paid For By Taxpayers
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb895
This bill would establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would require the Secretary of Government Operations to oversee the process of appointing the director of the foundation, and would authorize the Secretary of Government Operations to delegate the task of hiring and determining the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of additional personnel to the director, as specified. The bill would require the director and personnel of the foundation to be responsible for implementing the strategic objectives of the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council, as described below, administering grants and loans awarded by the council, and all other duties as deemed necessary for the operation of the foundation.
This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, Fund and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the foundation to award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral health, and climate research. The bill would also create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Benefit Fund, to consist solely of private donations. The bill would make the moneys in the benefit fund available for the same purposes as the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund.
California advances $12 billion bond for science research in rebuke to Trump cuts
Long legislative path, and voter approval, still ahead for state’s latest attempt to stopgap federal cuts
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/california-science-bond-nih-cuts-ucsf/
UAW Supported Bill SB 895 Would Put Billions of Public Money Into Private Bio-Tech Companies Paid For By Taxpayers
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb895
This bill would establish the California Foundation for Science and Health Research within the Government Operations Agency. The bill would require the Secretary of Government Operations to oversee the process of appointing the director of the foundation, and would authorize the Secretary of Government Operations to delegate the task of hiring and determining the salaries, bonuses, and benefits of additional personnel to the director, as specified. The bill would require the director and personnel of the foundation to be responsible for implementing the strategic objectives of the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Council, as described below, administering grants and loans awarded by the council, and all other duties as deemed necessary for the operation of the foundation.
This bill would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, Fund and require the moneys in the fund to be used by the foundation to award grants and make loans to public or private research companies, universities, institutes, and organizations for scientific research and development, in specific areas of research, including, but not limited to, biomedical, behavioral health, and climate research. The bill would also create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Benefit Fund, to consist solely of private donations. The bill would make the moneys in the benefit fund available for the same purposes as the California Foundation for Science and Health Research Fund.
California advances $12 billion bond for science research in rebuke to Trump cuts
Long legislative path, and voter approval, still ahead for state’s latest attempt to stopgap federal cuts
https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/california-science-bond-nih-cuts-ucsf/
For more information:
https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bi...
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