Can’t we all just get along?
As labor unions continue to rally in a call for justice over the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, the AFL-CIO’s police union has sent a letter to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka addressing their concerns over recent rhetoric, hoping to bring the organization to heel. The AFL-CIO confirmed it received a letter this week from Sam Cabral, the president of the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA.) The letter comes as other AFL unions including the teachers have condemned grand juries for not indicting the killers of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in New York City, and are calling for sweeping police reforms. Neither IUPA nor the AFL-CIO would discuss the details of the letter, citing it as an “internal” matter. But a spokesman for the police union said they were frustrated there “wasn’t much” they could do to help quell the anti-police narrative coming from the AFL that’s seemed to come to a boiling point nationwide.