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group engaged in BDS calls. With the UAW representing public and graduate employees at public universities, the state could be forced to divest from the UAW’s pension and retirement funds, or possibly even not provide dues check-off for the union. New York State law has allowed the state to strip unions of dues check-off if they violate state law. Having been sent a serious legal threat, Barofsky informed UAW President Shawn Fain of the threat in
December and forwarded the letter from the ADL to the International Executive Board (IEB).
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raising similar issues, adding, "For what it’s worth, as I previously shared with Shawn, similar concerns were raised directly to me shortly after the IEB issued its own ceasefire statement." New York State’s first-in-the-nation anti-BDS law requires state and local governments to divest from any
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Barofsky "without identifying a single alleged error," and attacked the "utter cowardice and lack of professionalism needed to produce this passage" on the part of both the newspaper and the official.
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as well as a number of real estate companies. The role of the chief watchdog of the government's $ 700 billion TARP program was to root out and prosecute waste, fraud and abuse. Under
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