Time for these cretins to get a history lesson first hand on why there are labor laws in this country. Why there is a forty hour work week. Why there is collective bargaining. Why its keeping them(the management) alive.
There isn’t management for these jobs though. The people are the management. Both sides of the table are the same in the public sector.
That’s a good way to keep people out of a profession.
That’s now how this works. Time to beat the Governor to death.
I love picturing this being said matter of factly from a husband to a spouse over morning coffee.
“Oh no, well that’s now how this works at all… Time to beat the Governor to death, dear. Well, off I go for the day, see you at dinner”
Oh, wow.
That went after the cops, too.
That was really fucking stupid of them, you reward your foot soldiers just well enough to make them trust the system enough to defend it with their lives against their own class.
You let the cop “union” thrive and they’ll kick every teacher to death on their overtime pay with gusto.
Probably don’t have to pay them, they’ll do it for free.
What they want is not pay, but the ability of harassing minorities.
General strike from teachers, firefighters and police it is, then.
Don’t count on cops for solidarity, even with something this blatant.
My only surprise is they didn’t add nurses and doctors after that show of force went down, state wide, in Oregon this year.
Honestly surprised by cops being included in this. Wonder if that will bring major backlash in such a conservative state.
Narrator: it won’t. They are too far gone with the indoctrination. They’ll lament and get back in line, to cheer for the next one who got fucked that isn’t them
You forgot that they’ll also all go to Church on the weekend and tell each other what good people they are. Was it not Jesus who said, “No unions on my watch, pal.”
Well, one win out of three isn’t bad for Utah :o
Don’t worry the Federal government will step … Oh they just crippled the agency that prevents this. How convenient.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/15/business/nlrb-trump-musk-workers/index.html
Banning police unions is a no brainer.
Banning police unions is a no brainer.
they’re downright fucking evil, a hideous example of what a union should be doing. they protect the worst of the worst and keep the city and force paying for their bullshit. and they show no solidarity to other unions.
They are actually a classic example of what unions do.
lolol sure thing bud
It’s spelled “lol”
Easy block, nothing of value to be had from this dude trying to spell check “lolol”
^ name checks out
They should strike anyways.
Union prevent heads in sticks, time for heads on sticks
The ruling class forgets how the unions were the compromise to allow them to keep their heads attached to their bodies
I don’t think they’ve forgotten. They’re just confident that the culture war trap they’ve built will keep us busy fighting amongst ourselves.
Americants won’t do anything about it
Well, there was this one guy recently…
There are plenty of unsung heros.
would be a shame if EMS were slow to respond to an emergent need for medical care for one Utah governor. why did they think this was a good idea??
Fucking strike anyway. What are they gonna do?
I agree with your sentiment but they know what will happen sadly. Back in 1981, Reagan fired all 11,353 air traffic controllers who were “illegally” striking. He also banned them for life from working for the Fed Govt.
Who did he replace them with? Were all the planes just grounded for a year while they looked for and trained new hires?
Literally fire them all like Reagan did to the Air Traffic Controllers.
And then what? If you fire all a singular group listed above that’s striking (nurses, teachers, POLICE) who’s going to be there to pick up the reigns?
That’s the point, you bring it to a screeching halt and they then need to come to the table. But without the social safety nets other developed countries have, people here are reluctant to push back hard. There will eventually be a tipping point in my view in the future.
who’s going to be there to pick up the reigns?
Exactly. Read Project 2025.
The postal service is unable to legally strike. They struck in the 70s (?) illegally and got tons of concessions and no one went to prison for it. Seems like teachers could do something similar. We wouldn’t miss cops and, unfortunately, firefighters also wouldn’t be missed (we still love them, unlike cops).
I’m super pro union but your arguments are sloppy.
In 1981 Reagan fired and banned for life over 11,000 striking Air Traffic controllers. People sadly haven’t forgotten.
Without cops, what does a person assaulted or burgled do? How are the 20K+ murders a year investigated? Firefighters? They respond primarily to medical emergency. And about a million fire incidents a year.
Cops rarely, if ever stop, or investigate crimes. Cops have single digit clearance rates for homicides.
The world stops without teachers working. Many people rely on them for childcare so that they can go to work. Air traffic controllers are very important. But many orders of magnitude less important for our economy than teachers.
We can discuss abolition of cops some other time, but we aren’t going to see eye to eye on this. They and firefighters are not on the critical path of daily capitalism like teachers though.
He included police unions? He’s fucked. Republican voters don’t give a crap about teachers or firefighters, but he messed with the cops that they vehemently pretend to support.
I think the Presudwbtsxrejease of rioters who attacked police officers on Capitol Hill made it pretty clear to cops that the GOP was never actually on their side.
They originally tried to exempt police unions but were told that would be too blatantly illegal and the whole thing would be struck down, so they did this instead.
Whoa, is that speculation or in the article somewhere?
Here’s the original text of the bill, you can see the original text stricken out:
https://le.utah.gov/~2024/bills/static/HB0285.html
This was from the bill they introduced last year to do the same thing.
God damn! This is insane 😮💨
that would be too blatantly illegal
Unlike 90% of the other shit they’re doing…
My money is the police unions will just ignore this; or even more on brand, they’ll invent some new with that just means collective bargaining, but only for police.
