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Originally Posted by Locke
Here is the thing, I understand the need and benefits of Unions, but they've far outgrown their purview and mandates and effectively become mafias.
We dont want Police officers being constantly thrown under the bus after every incident or controversy but we dont want them to be immune either.
And lets not pretend otherwise. The protection offered to Police under their Unions and CBAs is effectively immunity. They are genuinely 'Above the Law' and it took an entire country rioting to get a murdering Police officer charged.
There has to be balance and at the moment there isnt.
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I haven’t posted in a while but the hyperbole in this post is too ridiculous to not comment on.
The labour movement has always been one of the biggest proponents for racial equity and civil rights in general. I don’t know how one could try to argue that getting rid of or reducing Unions wouldn’t do more harm than good for any people who’ve been unjustly marginalized by society.
Getting rid of police Unions does nothing to address the systemic issues that leads to officers being acquitted of criminal charges for their misconduct. The Unions don’t control the laws that lead to these acquittals. I’m not even sure that the Unions would be involved at all in the event an officer were to be criminally charged as that would not be a labour relations matter but that’s a whole other discussion. In any event, Union or no Union, until the laws are changed officers will continue to avoid being held accountable.
You’re scratching the surface of the problem so instead of taking the opportunity to grandstand with the Fox News or Rebel media flavoured anti-Union rhetoric of tinfoil hat conspiracy theories and factually inaccurate statements, try to keep digging and you may actually come up with some solutions to the real problem.