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Police have a level of solidarity that puts the average worker to shame (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 days ago* by LemmySuxNow@reddthat.com to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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If a police officer does something wrong. It does not matter what the evidence shows or what happens. All police everywhere stand firmly together and protect their brethren. We literally have police offers who have undeniably murdered people and yet other police still stand with their class and demand better treatment.

If workers had that level of solidarity things would be so much better. Instead we cheer when someone gets fired who "deserved" it.

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[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 1 point 20 hours ago

No, a union protects employees from their employers' employment action (e.g. suspension, demotion, termination).

Punnet Square of typical unions (forgive my formatting as tables are not supported on Lemmy:

    +============================+======================================+==========================================================+
    |                            | Employee broke policy                                                              | Employee didn't                                                                                                                            |
    +============================+====================================================================================+============================================================================================================================================+
    | Union successfully defends | Fellow employees and/or employer and/or customers upset, likely zero news          | Employer upset, almost certainly zero news                                                                                                 |
    | Union fails to defend      | Employee suspended/retrained/terminated appropriately, almost certainly zero news  | If local news is lacking in Florida Man stories, they might run it between dick pill and truck ads, but 99.999% of people never hear of it |
    +----------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Contrast that with law enforcement unions:

    |                            | Employee broke policy                | Employee didn't                                          |
    +============================+======================================+==========================================================+
    | Union successfully defends | Justified public outrage, viral news | (Likely secretly) unjustified public outrage, viral news |
    | Union fails to defend      | Justified public outrage, viral news | Few know, and fewer care                                 |
    +----------------------------+--------------------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------+

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