The increasing criticism against police unions has now extended to other unions calling to remove them from large labor federations such as the AFL-CIO, as the Writers Guild of America did earlier this week when they asked for the removal of the International Union of Police Associations. Police unions are being criticized due to their tendency to be hostile to officer criticism, as well as their deeply conservative roots dominated by white leadership. In Seattle last week, the King county Labor Coalition told Seattle police that their union would be removed from the coalition if its racism is not addressed. Earlier this week, the AFL-CIO rrecognized that police violence was a labor issue, but at the time argued that isolating the police unions would not address the problems.
See "Labor leaders increasingly pressured to remove police unions from labor movement", Frida Garza, The Guardian, June 12, 2020