What about other government workers, such as military, teachers, social workers, etc?
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Everyone should form unions. Collective bargaining is the best and only realistic way to stand against capitalist overreach.
That being said, a union of assholes is still a giant bag of assholes. The issue is that unions for anyone can't be able to bypass responsibility and ethics. If they can, and the cop unions do, there's a problem. They do need to be able to provide members with protection from false accusations, but police unions end up making it hard to remove officers from duty at all, even when the officer should be facing criminal charges.
But saying that a group of employees can't organize because of the job is just bullshit. Remember Regan and the ATC workers?
Even the military should be able to, though I don't know how in the hell that would work in practice.
I'm not saying that unions are perfect, they aren't. Police unions are a perfect example of how flawed they can end up. But they're still the best tool we have as a populace, and everyone should be able to negotiate collectively
If it doesn't have the legal powers of a union, then it's not a union. It would be impossible to have a military that is unionized in any meaningful sense of the word. Yes, they still have the power of collectivism, and they should still use that power to their common advantage, but that doesn't make it a union.
Yeah, I can't see it actually working right at all. It's contrary to how a military body works.