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>They can certainly seem very powerful on a person-to-person level, but in terms of government policy or national culture they are very small. That is incredib
by Clubber 3y ago
>They can certainly seem very powerful on a person-to-person level, but in terms of government policy or national culture they are very small.
That is incredibly naive. I would argue the police unions are the most powerful unions in the country by quite a large margin.
- olliej 3y agoIn any real sense the police "unions" are unique in that they're the only union that actively opposed and attacks other unions. Every union other than the police unions is attacked because they "hurt the economy" (they don't, and they're the reason for most improvements to compensation and working hours normal people experience). Every other union will refuse to cross picket lines, whereas police unions actively assault picket lines, and have repeatedly murdered strikers, and also covered up murders of strikers. Police, and their union, are sufficiently anti-union that it's absurd that they're still a "police union" rather than a gang. After all the police union is the only one permitted to use force, and is the only one allowed to break the law, and the only one that gets to kill others.