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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
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.
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While I would generally agree with you I am just old enough to remember when union membership was, in many chapels (locals here), barred to persons of colour and Irish (and women in truth) in the UK, it was when I was a kid but I grew up in a strongly pro union family and was well aware of both the good and the bad that comes with a closed shop via my grandad and uncles.
Unions reflect their membership, if the membership are a bunch of racist ######bags, which in the 60's was largely the case in the UK, then the union will be as well, this also explains the police union in the states now