Are Cops Part of the Labor Movement or an Existential Threat to It?

Far from all the political bluster about police being “defunded,” six years after the earth-shaking George Floyd protests swept the US and public approval for law enforcement plummeted, police have never been more politically and monetarily supported than they are now. But when veteran labor reporters and union activists Hamilton Nolan and Jacob Morrison attended the 23rd Quadrennial Convention of the International Union of Police Associations in Las Vegas, Nevada, they found a different kind of union, and a different kind of convention, than they were expecting…

In this special episode of Working People, we speak with Nolan and Morrison about their August reporting trip to the IUPA Convention in Las Vegas.

Additional links/info:

• Hamilton Nolan Substack (How Things Work) and Bluesky page
• Jacob Morrison’s Twitter/X page
• The Valley Labor Report website, YouTube channel, Facebook page, Bluesky page, and Twitter/X page
• Hamilton Nolan & Jacob Morrison, The Real News Network, “Beards and loathing: A cop union convention comes to Las Vegas”
• Hamilton Nolan, How Things Work, “We infiltrated a police union convention in Las Vegas”

Featured Music:

• Jules Taylor, Working People Theme Song

Credits:

• Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor

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