Jewish Labor Committee

March 19, 2015, New York, NY: The Jewish Labor Committee presented this year's Human Rights Awards to Marc Perrone, newly elected international president of the 1.3 million member United Food and Commercial Workers Union and Julie Kushner, Director of United Auto Workers District 9A. Congressman Jerrold Nadler addressed the JLC's Human Rights Awards Dinner, as did Senator Elizabeth Warren - via video message to the gathering (see it by clicking on image, below.) Stuart Appelbaum, President of the JLC and of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, UFCW, MC'd the evening. Other speakers included Michael Goodwin, President of OPEIU, Vincent Alvarez, President of the New York City Central Labor Council, and two brave carwasheros, on strike for the past four months in their effort to gain dignity on the job through a union.

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March 18, 2015, New York, NY -- Stuart Appelbaum, President of the Jewish Labor Committee, issued the following statement the morning after Israel's national elections:

"While it is too soon to know which party will be able to form a governing coalition, it appears that Likud is in better position to do so after Tuesday's Israeli elections. We couldn't disagree more strongly with Benjamin Netanyahu's statement that there will never be a Palestinian state under his watch and we believe that regardless of last-minute campaign rhetoric, the only hope for peace is a negotiated two-state solution."

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