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by baobrain
2647 days ago
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I think it's inaccurate to claim that there are people who aren't enamored with unions simply because people don't like unions. Take police unions for example. It is well documented that many unions are fervently against policies such as always-on body cams that theoretically should protect a (good) cop and the citizen. Fail that, they are against releasing body cam footage.[0] Police unions are also known to protect abusive officers. [1] I'm not trying to claim that there isn't an anti-union attitude, but it is not simply associating them with communism. [0]https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/nyregion/new-york-police-...
[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/12/how-pol... |
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Some police unions do these things and need to be stopped. But that does not mean all unions in every field are bad. There are evil corporations too, are all corporations bad? Are the majority? Why does the public precive that differently?
Since the cold war, the communism claim has given way to universally negative portal: the sole presentation in fact is negative. Usually by tacitly implying an unusual behavior is typical and inevitable of every possible union.
The difference is Exxon runs ads of happy children running through flowery fields and unions don't. And pointing out a union's deficiencies is not going to loose sponsors, possibly the reverse.