Anonymous ID: 7245db June 17, 2020, 9:58 p.m. No.9655387   🗄️.is đź”—kun

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https://labornotes.org/2020/06/why-local-labor-council-threatening-expel-seattle-police-guild

 

Delegates to the Martin Luther King County Labor Council, which includes Seattle and its suburbs, will decide June 17 whether to kick out the Seattle Police Officers Guild.

 

Two resolutions brought the issue forward. One, backed by the teachers union in the working-class Highline area south of Seattle, calls for kicking the cops out, full stop. The labor council’s executive board has heard it but not yet voted on it.

 

An alternative resolution, submitted by SEIU Healthcare 1199NW and Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 21, passed June 4. In it, the executive board set an ultimatum for the police guild to meet certain demands by June 17 or else be kicked out.

 

UFCW Local 21, regarded as a progressive force in Seattle’s labor movement, finally joined the labor council in April—becoming its largest affiliate, with 46,000 members. It has also called for Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan to resign over police violence against the protesters.

 

The resolution demanded that the police guild meet with the labor council’s executive board, admit that racism is a problem in law enforcement, and agree to work together with the labor council to stamp out racism and ensure that “contracts do not evade legitimate accountability.”