Calls Grow To Boot Police From US Labor Movement

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Calls Grow To Boot Police From US Labor Movement
Amid outrage over the killing of George Floyd, organized labor may be beginning to reconsider its relationship to police unions

As protests against police brutality continue across the US, a new tactic is emerging to combat the huge influence of police unions: kicking them out of the American labor movement.

Police unions and labor groups, like other unions, usually represent their members in debates over pay and working conditions. But they are controversial for being dominated by white leaders, often deeply conservative and hostile to criticism of police officers or attempts at police reform.

This week the Writers Guild of America, East – a trade union of TV writers and digital journalists – called for the removal of the International Union of Police Associations from the AFL-CIO, the labor federation which represents them both.

“As long as police unions continue to wield their collective bargaining power as a cudgel, preventing reforms and accountability, no one is safe,” the Guild said in a press release. “Therefore we believe that police unions do not belong in our labor coalition.”

The Writers Guild is the first AFL-CIO affiliate to demand IUPA’s expulsion from the nation’s largest labor federation. That demand reflects a central tension between police unions and the broader labor movement, and points to a gulf that has historically existed between them. In the last few days and weeks, that gulf has seemed to be getting bigger.AMIBC® - VOTE! BE COUNTED! BE HEARD!
SOURCE ⇒ THEGUARDIAN


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