Although the American labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the global problem of war. For more than a century, prominent U.S. labor leaders have called for peace, as have many of their unions. In the past three months alone, the nation's major labor federation, the AFL-CIO, has rebuked the governments of the United States and Israel for initiating a war with Iran, demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and championed reliance upon international law and the United Nations in the quest for peace.