LDAHL
8-11-15, 5:01pm
I see the union representing student workers in the University of California System has called on the AFL-CIO to severe it’s relationship with the International Union of Police Associations:
“We, UAW Local 2865, call on the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to end their affiliation with the International Union of Police Associations. It is our position that this organization is inimical to both the interests of labor broadly, and Black workers in particular. Historically and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as laborers. Instead, their “unionization” allows police to masquerade as members of the working-class and obfuscates their role in enforcing racism, capitalism, colonialism, and the oppression of the working-class. We ask that the AFL-CIO recognize this history and take steps to serve the interests of its Black workers and community members.”
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18240/afl-cio-police-unions-racism-black-lives-matter
Apparently, the teaching assistant vanguard of the proletariat is looking for a good old-fashioned purge.
“We, UAW Local 2865, call on the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) to end their affiliation with the International Union of Police Associations. It is our position that this organization is inimical to both the interests of labor broadly, and Black workers in particular. Historically and contemporarily, police unions serve the interests of police forces as an arm of the state, and not the interests of police as laborers. Instead, their “unionization” allows police to masquerade as members of the working-class and obfuscates their role in enforcing racism, capitalism, colonialism, and the oppression of the working-class. We ask that the AFL-CIO recognize this history and take steps to serve the interests of its Black workers and community members.”
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18240/afl-cio-police-unions-racism-black-lives-matter
Apparently, the teaching assistant vanguard of the proletariat is looking for a good old-fashioned purge.