The mass protest movement against the murder and lynching of George Floyd and many many others has led to a struggle in the labor movement about the role of the police whether they should be in the unions. The AFL-CIO as well as other unoins have thousands of police members.<\/p>\n
Last month, the Martin Luther King Jr. Labor Council\u00a0in Seattle after a sharp debate, voted to throw the police out of the council. At the same time, ATU and TWU bus drivers in New York and Chicago have refused to transport\u00a0arrested protesters.<\/p>\n
One ATU 241 member Erek Slater<\/em> in Chicago was removed by the police and terminated after he had a discussion with members at his bus barn on the position of the ATU International.<\/p>\n This forum will look at these issues and what labor should do. The video of this event will be uploaded soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The mass protest movement against the murder and lynching of George Floyd and many many others has led to a struggle in the labor movement about the role of the police whether they should be in the unions. The AFL-CIO as well as other unoins…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1078,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[42,71,4,70],"class_list":["post-973","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-07-04-2020","tribe_events_cat-71","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_07-04-2020","cat_2020","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPanelists:
\nGabriel Prawl<\/strong>, Former Seattle ILWU Local 52 president and A. Philipp Randolph Institute Seattle Chapter President
\nJack Heyman<\/strong>, \u00a0Retired ILWU Local 10 Member and Former ITF Bay Area Agent
\nErek Slater<\/strong>, ATU 242 Bus Driver & Executive Board Member
\nLeith Kahl<\/strong>, ILWU Local 19 Seattle
\nBrenda Barros<\/strong>, SEIU 1021 SF General Hospital Chapter Chair<\/p>\n