It’s also the only durable way to force the political system to represent workers instead of more moneyed interests that can dump lumper sums into political campaigns. Voting in elections alone is simply not enough, as demonstrated by various examples here and abroad, unfortunatrly.

With the recent events in Alberta I really question the competence of the unions leaders. It really seems like a lot of them almost entirely rest on the laurels of the past so things should just fall their way.

They’ve also been losing the social media battle for a long time.