NO COP UNIONS

We are rank-and-file union members demanding that the AFL-CIO terminate its affiliation with police unions. DM to get involved. #1u #DropTheCops

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

SIGN THE PETITION: https://t.co/pn5xCOYohp
#1u #DropTheCops

[Cop-Free AFSCME @copfreeafscme]

Qualified immunity allows police to continue brutalizing black and brown people as long as @AFSCME supports that, they support police terror. #copfreeafscme #wecallonafscmeto

[Cop-Free AFSCME @copfreeafscme]

If we want AFSCME to be an anti racist union, we must put on the pressure! Join us in calling for a #copfreeafscme #wecallonafscmeto

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

I’m in @thenation today arguing for the necessity of eradicating police and their ‘unions’ from the labor movement: https://t.co/u2Pr50HOZO

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

Solidarity with @alaa2325, who have passed a motion calling on the @AFLCIO and @UAW to expel police unions from our ranks!

[ALAA - UAW 2325 @alaa2325]

Last night our union's Joint Council overwhelmingly passed the attached motion calling on the AFL-CIO and UAW to expel policing unions from our ranks. @NoCopUnions

Read the full statement below:

https://t.co/7W1ZCjPGvc

[Sam Adler-Bell @SamAdlerBell]

New piece. On how police unions do politics. For @newrepublic https://t.co/JhMlBUn63a

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK

[SEIU Drop the Cops! @SEIUDropTheCops]

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Reminder that cops are colonial authorities and have no place in the union.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

The verdict on Breonna Taylor’s murderers came down as I was in the middle of an @NLGnews #law4thepeople panel called ‘Police Unions: What Is To Be Done?’

That answer is simple: Drop the fucking cops. The enemies of the working class have no place in the labor movement. Period.

[Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan]

Interesting that @AFLCIO president Richard Trumka says re. Breonna Taylor that "racism exists" and "the time for action and reform is long overdue," but he is the main institutional defender of the police unions who say that racist policing does not exist. https://t.co/Kog91rEijm

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

hey 👋 @AFLCIO a great way to support the movement for Black Lives would be to kick cops out of the labor movement ... just sayin’ 🤷‍♂️

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

I wonder, is anyone here in a union that tacitly or explicitly partners with police and therefore assists in shielding uniformed murderers? dang, seems like most of us still do!

tell your labor leadership that this HAS. TO. CHANGE.

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

The verdict on Breonna Taylor’s murderers came down as I was in the middle of an @NLGnews #law4thepeople panel called ‘Police Unions: What Is To Be Done?’

That answer is simple: Drop the fucking cops. The enemies of the working class have no place in the labor movement. Period.

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

👇👇😮👇👇

[Maximillian Alvarez @maximillian_alv]

If you haven't heard our 🔥 @WorkingPod / @inthesetimesmag season finale on the rank-&-file push to get cops out of the labor movement (w/ @GrimKim & @SJW_Hoe of @NoCopUnions & @julia_furia of @SEIUDropTheCops) ... get those 🎧 out

On iTunes/Spotify/etc
https://t.co/6qBuzXSZ63

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

Police unions have so much power that perceived “disrespect” to cops in Portland, Seattle, and NYC has swung NATIONAL policy this week, with all three cities getting threats to their federal $$$ (in a pandemic, no less)

But we MUST demand accountability. We can and we will!

[Hipólita of the Lily Tribe 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇦🇷☭ @its_hipolita]

No.

Class is defined by relationship to the process of production, not by merely receiving a wage or salary.

Policing under capitalism isn't socially necessary labor, it's being an agent of capital and an enemy of workers. They're the foot soldiers for state violence.

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

This fight is not over, in fact, it’s just getting started. Help us by telling your union leadership that “police union” is an oxymoron ... oh, and sign our petition!

[NO COP UNIONS @NoCopUnions]

SIGN THE PETITION: https://t.co/pn5xCOYohp
#1u #DropTheCops

[Cop-Free AFSCME @copfreeafscme]

Why do we demand a #CopFreeAFSCME?

”If police are used to break strikes, then their duties are in opposition to the aims of the labor movement. They exist to protect private property and the interests of the capitalist class, not the workers.” — @JuanJoseGuva, Local 3090

[Cop-Free AFSCME @copfreeafscme]

As a union, we cannot be complicit in the labor abuses of the carceral state. Report from an incarcerated person inside Angola, who can’t afford the $3 doctor call charge at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on his wages of 2 cents/hr, 80 cents/week: https://t.co/QlDiVNpcv1

[Cop-Free AFSCME @copfreeafscme]

Us: if we are committed to racial justice, we must work to dismantle the racist, extractive and brutal prison industrial complex. Angola was built on a former plantation and pays incarcerated workers 2 cents per hour

@AFSCME: HIRE 👏 MORE 👏 WOMEN 👏 GUARDS 👏

[SEIU Local 73 @SEIULocal73]

It’s official: We are going on strike! Join us tomorrow at 12PM for a rally with @INAaction. We are withholding our work until we receive the contract we've long-deserved! Protect us. Respect us. Pay us. ✊

DETAILS: https://t.co/Qa4ZQSoC1C

#FairContractNowUIC #ProtectAllWorkers

[johnknefel @johnknefel]

By the late 1960s, police unions were on the forefront of the racist backlash against civil rights gains. In NYC, the PBA worked with Birchers to prevent civilian oversight, and push a "law and order" message through JBS' "Support Your Local Police" committees