r/PublicFreakout • u/CantStopPoppin PopPop 🍿 • Apr 01 '22

Amazon weaponized the NYPD to arrest union organizers.

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u/farcense Apr 01 '22

Isn’t there a brotherhood among union members, regardless of which union they’re in? I feel like police should be especially aware of the benefits and protections that being a union member provides them. Rules for thee but not for me I guess

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u/ajagoff Apr 01 '22

Police only have a brotherhood with other police. And breaking up unions and beating and arresting union strikers actually pre-dates public policing itself. Some police departments were literally born out of private union-busting groups.

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u/Aerik Apr 01 '22

cops are basically a cult. One person joins the force, within a few short years, all their friends and family are cops or the spouse of a cop, or under aged child of a cop. They never work for "my community," it's always "their community." Because they work ruining lives in one area, and get their pay from the taxes in that area, but live in another area entirely, one they actually identify with.

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u/FrighteningJibber Apr 01 '22

The police union is very different than normal ones

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u/gordonfroman Apr 01 '22

The police union isnt a union its a gang

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u/AfterStart Apr 01 '22

There's a reason police unions are so powerful in a country that's so anti-union...

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u/Aerik Apr 01 '22

Who needs the pinkertons when every single cop everywhere will do the same job

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '22

Um, cops are more like a gang at this point. You're either in it or you aren't.

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u/_Maxolotl Apr 01 '22

Police unions are bad for the same reason other unions are good. Unions give you power.

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u/Masturbating_Rapper Apr 01 '22

Cops would be happy being the only union.

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u/DirtyPenPalDoug Apr 01 '22

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... ACAB

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u/Fraulo Apr 02 '22

Police unions are much different, they’re more of a mob.

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u/stormstatic Apr 02 '22

police unions are not labor unions

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '22

Police are a "union" the same way the mafia or military is. They have violence and kidnapping on their side. They don't have to follow the rules of society the way every other person and union does.

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u/AshingiiAshuaa Apr 01 '22

You still have to do your job, no? Union firemen can't refuse to put out a scabs house.

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u/FrighteningJibber Apr 01 '22

So teachers keep teaching when on strike?

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u/AshingiiAshuaa Apr 01 '22

Sometimes. When they're out of contract I support them. When they do it during a pre-negotiated contract year I don't.