Martin Malin and our friend and frequent LGM commenter Joseph Slater have an essay noting that police unions are not the problem in dealing with racist cops and that the.
Tyrone Turner / WAMU I maintain all the points I've made about the complexity of how to respond to police unions in the wake of trying to tame the racist.
The issue of police unionism is very, very tricky. I hate the cops as much as anyone, but this is a situation where the move from slogan to policy is.
The issues around police unions are more complicated than those who call to abolish them want to believe. But that doesn't mean that other unions have to have any respect.
The Cleveland police are protesting Browns players kneeling during the national anthem by doing their jobs and respecting the flag like they claim to believe oh actually also refusing to.
When Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Republicans pushed through their draconian anti-public union law, one of the ways they succeeded is to cleave the police and firefighter unions off of.
This is a good piece on how the AFL-CIO is trying to thread the needle between supporting the rights of police unions to collectively bargain and be part of the.
Sarah Jaffe has an excellent discussion of the relationship between police unions and the rest of the labor movement at Truthout. UAW Local 2865, which represents California graduate students, has.
