Why Police Need Unions 2
Why Police Need Unions Police unions are growing in today's law enforcement environment, since they first began in the early twentieth century. Police unions are organizations that work together with employees to avoid suffering unfairness from their superiors (Gant, 1993). Not only to avoid unfairness in benefits, pay and security, but also when it comes to representing an officer who lost his job unfairly. Unions fight for the rights of the employees not that of the employer. The unions provides, ''legal service to members accused of misconduct or other infringements'' in order to fight for the employee to keep his/her job (Fleming & Marks, 2014). Police unions are needed for every police officer in order to protect their rights. Police unions protect the employee interests and legal representation and not that of the employer. As many employees know, employers are always seeking the best for the little possible pay and/or benefits which is why unions fight against them to give the best to employees. Police officers work in an environment where their lives are always at risk. One just does not know how the day will end, for that reason unions believe that officers should be represented and protected properly and effectively. Officers have sworn to protect society from wrongdoers and as much as they work for this they are human and mistakes do happen. We all make mistakes at work either voluntarily or involuntarily but there's always a reason as too why something did not came out the way it was suppose to. Police organizations ensures that when an officer is fired or suspended from his work the police department takes all the steps to ensure that the officer is paid for that time lost before it can be proven that the officer was at fault. Been part of such a stressful job makes it hard for police officers to do great on the field and also worry about their rights at the department. When the department wants to cut on benefits and/or pay the unions are the