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Many of the independent unions serve police in local municipalities. The self-described "largest municipal police union in the world" is the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York that represents 24,000 members of the NYPD. [2] [3] There is no single dominant national association. Four associations have significant membership ...
The union miners, exposed on the logged-off hillside, had not positioned themselves for a gunfight, while mine guards were able to shelter in buildings. The union men circled above the mill, and got into a position where they could send a box of black powder down the flume into one of the mine buildings. The building exploded, killing one ...
In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, news reports have suggested that police unions bear some of the responsibility for the violence perpetrated ...
Confessions of a Union Buster. New York: Random House. Smith, Robert Michael. 2003. From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Union busting in the United States. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Reik, Millie. 2005. "Labor Relations (Major Issues in American History). Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-31864-6
How far is the party of labor willing to go to confront them in the name of racial justice?
Morrison said once 30% of a companies workers have signed a union authorization card they are able to call for a secret-ballot election either for or against unionization. As soon as that number ...
Union organizer Frank Little was pulled from his bed and lynched in 1917 because of his union activities.. Historically, violence against unions has included attacks by detective and guard agencies, such as the Pinkertons, Baldwin Felts, Burns, or Thiel detective agencies; citizens groups, such as the Citizens' Alliance; company guards; police; national guard; or even the military.
Cities have ceded too much authority to police unions in the disciplining of bad cops, the report said. "We're at the inflection point, and unions need to be part of the solution," Chicago Mayor ...