Our multinational labor movement is being asked if we will join this movement for a radical shift in how our country treats Black people and for a radical realignment in policing, incarceration, and funding for the public good.
The barriers to reform police unions erected over the years will pose an enormous obstacle to establishing a new, more accountable kind of policing in the United States.
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Several local unions have moved to oust police unions, despite the federation's approach that collective bargaining can be used for police reform.
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While some in the labor movement are seeking to distance themselves, most are supportive even as they call for reforms.
The fight over law enforcement, history, and armed fascists in the streets
Recent Portside posts have explored different sides of the repressive role of the police and whether or not police unions as they are constituted should remain within the labor movement. Here Portside readers respond.
Let’s put police unions on a raft and set them adrift. They can reapply for solidarity if they stop abusing the rest of us.
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