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Originally posted by andViolins
Um, Hello? Mass., like most other states that I know of, DOES allow police officers to form unions. (see, I think, Mass. G.L. c.150E). Public employees in Mass do not have the ability to strike. They do, however, have the ability to go out and have themselves a good old informational picket. That is what they are doing here. A strike is not the same as informational picket, and this picket does not violate Mass law.
Crossing an informational picket line is really not the same as crossing a picket line put up during a strike.
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Ahem, you might want to check your sources again. Even in MASS, where I was really just guessing.
http://www.mass.gov/lrc/gb-evolution.html
Maybe you are using the term "union" in a way that Massachusetts specifically does not. The entire history is apparently shown in the link, and you'll note the part around 1958 where the term "except Police" appears. As with, ahem, most other states, that "except" part is still the law. There is a reason the F.O.P. will not call itself a "union" in most places.
Then again, we'd just be arguing about terminology. We both seem to agree that they couldn't strike if they wanted to etc.
And are you saying that "public employees" thing broadly? Is it not limited to emergency service-types and a few others, or does MASS really ban teachers, garbagemen, lifeguards and others from striking too?
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