UAW 4811 Statement on Trump’s Attack on Venezuela

The Trump administration’s bombing of Caracas and its abduction of Venezuela’s head of state are indefensible acts that will benefit only the billionaire class and expand their xenophobic, anti-immigrant agenda. It is time for our Congressional representatives to find the courage to oppose these actions, which break international law and would be condemned immediately if committed by any other world leader.

Trump and his administration spent 2025 attempting to slash funding for public higher education in this country, including a research enterprise that saves millions of lives every year, and at the same time pouring millions of dollars into its mass deportation and weapons export programs. Now they are spending billions on a regime change operation that 70% of Americans oppose, with the explicit goal of installing a pliant government in Venezuela and creating profits for oil corporations.

Every strike by an American bomber costs millions of dollars that could be spent educating Californians and finding cures for cancer, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease. The representatives that our state sends to Washington have the power to halt this betrayal of the public interest. UAW academic workers at UC strongly oppose Trump’s attack on Venezuela and call on our members of Congress to do the same.