Tournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: HW | Judge: Mark Kivimaki
CP Text: A just government should abolish police unions and recognize the unconditional right of all other workers to strike.
The aff makes police collective bargaining worse and gives more power to police unions.
Andrew Grim, 20 Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is at work on a dissertation on anti-police brutality activism in post-WWII Newark
- ("What is The Blue Flue and How Has It Increased Police Power,"
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the police to leverage public fear of crime to extract concessions from municipalities.
Christopher Ingraham ~Reporter~ 20. ("Police Unions and Police Misconduct: What the Research Says About the Connection," Washington Post, 6-10-2020, 10-27-2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/10/police-unions-violence-research-george-floyd/)//AW
Some of the most shocking images to emerge from the demonstrations that have dominated recent
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use of force against the nonwhite population," he recently said on Twitter.
Police unions use collective bargaining to reinforce systems of racism and violence. Clark ‘19
Paul F. Clark ~School Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State~, 10-10-2019, "Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-of-the-american-labor-movement-142538 accessed 10/20/2021 marlborough jh
In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer
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self-interests, often to the detriment of the nation at large.
Police unions are anti-labor- means the aff can never solve without getting rid of them AND turns case. Modak 20.
Ria Modak ~Student Coordinator, Muslim American Studies Working Group, Harvard Student Labor Action Movement and the Harvard Graduate Students Union~ 20 - ("Police Unions Are Anti-Labor," Ria Modak, Harvard Political Review, 9-9-2020, 10-27-2021 https://harvardpolitics.com/police-unions-are-anti-labor/)//AW
My own experiences with HUPD are reflective of a long history fraught with violence.
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no labor justice while police unions continue to protect anti-worker interests.
Rugaber 11/8 - Christopher Rugaber ~Economics Reporter, Associated Press~, "'A struggle and a journey': Report shows US economy recovering," Christian Science Monitor (Web). Nov. 8, 2021. Accessed Nov. 8, 2021. https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2021/1108/A-struggle-and-a-journey-Report-shows-US-economy-recovering AT
America’s employers accelerated their hiring last month, adding a solid 531,000 jobs
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were either working or looking for work rose after two months of declines.
McElroy, 2019, Strikes Hurt Everybody.Wards Auto Industry News, October 25, https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody====
This creates a poisonous relationship between the company and its workforce. Many GM hourly workers don’t identify as GM employees. They identify as UAW members. And they see the union as the source of their jobs, not the company. It’s an unhealthy dynamic that puts GM at a disadvantage to non-union automakers in the U.S. like Honda and Toyota, where workers take pride in the company they work for and the products they make. Attacking the company in the media also drives away customers. Who wants to buy a shiny new car from a company that’s accused of underpaying its workers and treating them unfairly? Data from the Center for Automotive Research (CAR) in Ann Arbor, MI, show that GM loses market share during strikes and never gets it back. GM lost two percentage points during the 1998 strike, which in today’s market would represent a loss of 340,000 sales. Because GM reports sales on a quarterly basis we’ll only find out at the end of December if it lost market share from this strike. UAW members say one of their greatest concerns is job security. But causing a company to lose market share is a sure-fire path to more plant closings and layoffs. Even so, unions are incredibly important for boosting wages and benefits for working-class people. GM’s UAW-represented workers earn considerably more than their non-union counterparts, about $26,000 more per worker, per year, in total compensation. Without a union they never would have achieved that. Strikes are a powerful weapon for unions. They usually are the only way they can get management to accede to their demands. If not for the power of collective bargaining and the threat of a strike, management would largely ignore union demands. If you took away that threat, management would pay its workers peanuts. Just ask the Mexican line workers who are paid $1.50 an hour to make $50,000 BMWs. But strikes don’t just hurt the people walking the picket lines or the company they’re striking against. They hurt suppliers, car dealers and the communities located near the plants. The Anderson Economic Group estimates that 75,000 workers at supplier companies were temporarily laid off because of the GM strike. Unlike UAW picketers, those supplier workers won’t get any strike pay or an $11,000 contract signing bonus. No, most of them lost close to a month’s worth of wages, which must be financially devastating for them. GM’s suppliers also lost a lot of money. So now they’re cutting budgets and delaying capital investments to make up for the lost revenue, which is a further drag on the economy. According to CAR, the communities and states where GM’s plants are located collectively lost a couple of hundred million dollars in payroll and tax revenue. Some economists warn that if the strike were prolonged it could knock the state of Michigan – home to GM and the UAW – into a recession. That prompted the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, to call GM CEO Mary Barra and UAW leaders and urge them to settle as fast as possible. So, while the UAW managed to get a nice raise for its members, the strike left a path of destruction in its wake. That’s not fair to the innocent bystanders who will never regain what they lost. John McElroyI’m not sure how this will ever be resolved. I understand the need for collective bargaining and the threat of a strike. But there’s got to be a better way to get workers a raise without torching the countryside
EPI ’09 – Economic Policy Institute, "Economic Scarring: The long-term impacts of the recession," Economic Policy Institute (Web). Briefing Paper ~#243. Sept. 30, 2009. Accessed Nov. 8, 2021. https://www.epi.org/publication/bp243/ AT
Economic recessions are often portrayed as short-term events. However, as a
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members, including children, and will have consequences for years to come.
BLS 1/22 - Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Economic News Release: Unions Members Summary," January 22, 2021. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm AT
In 2020, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions
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20.1 percent and there were 17.7 million union workers.
Non-Unique – Strikes are already high, and if these problems still exists that means that the strikes do not solve the aff.
Greenhouse 11/5 - Steven Greenhouse ~American labor and workplace journalist and writer~, "Op-Ed: Why unions are striking — and winning more public support than in 50 years," Los Angeles Times (Web). Nov. 4, 2021. Accessed Nov. 5, 2021. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-11-04/unions-strikes-economic-justice-agenda-public-approval AT
The U.S. is experiencing an unusual surge of strikes — 10,
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but often overlooked factor behind the strikes: It takes two to tangle.
Gordon Lafer, 20 - ("Fear at work: An inside account of how employers threaten, intimidate, and harass workers to stop them from exercising their right to collective bargaining," Economic Policy Institute, 7-23-2020, https://www.epi.org/publication/fear-at-work-how-employers-scare-workers-out-of-unionizing/)//va
NLRB elections are fundamentally framed by one-sided control over communication, with no
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fact that there will be much lower union density in the first place.
Chris Giles 15, Economics Editor for FT, "Inequality is unjust, not bad for growth," Aug 18 2015, https://www.ft.com/content/94a7b252-45a1-11e5-b3b2-1672f710807b
Disparity of income is both a virtue and a vice. The virtue of providing
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set as countries with relatively strong growth, low inequality and high redistribution.
Greenhut 20 ~Steven Greenhut is Western region director for the R Street Institute and a member of the Southern California News Group editorial board. Write to him at sgreenhut@rstreet.org. "Let’s knock off the blithe talk of a coming civil war." https://www.ocregister.com/2020/06/05/lets-knock-off-the-blithe-talk-of-a-coming-civil-war/~~
It’s time to take a deep breath and consider our current divisions within some historical
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. Whatever one thinks of Trump, his administration will one day pass.
Police unions use collective bargaining to reinforce systems of racism and violence. Clark ‘19
Paul F. Clark ~School Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State~, 10-10-2019, "Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-of-the-american-labor-movement-142538 accessed 10/20/2021 marlborough jh
In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer
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self-interests, often to the detriment of the nation at large.
Pamlin and Armstrong 15 – Dennis Pamlin, Executive Project Manager, Global Challenges Foundation, Stuart Armstrong, James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, 2015 ("Global Challenges: 12 Risks that Threaten Human Civilization," Global Challenges Foundation, February 2015, http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/HON301/12-Risks-with-infinite-impact-full-report-1.pdf)
Often economic collapse is accompanied by social chaos, civil unrest and sometimes a breakdown
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(such as conflict or starvation) could cause great death and suffering.