Blah, blah, blah!
If she's so fucking labour-friendly why didn't she even [b]mention[/b] the public-service wage freeze at the convention?
She's so fucking terrified of the NDP being seen as labour-friendly that she'd rather hand hundreds of millions of dollars to fucking capitalist employers as a reward for giving people McJobs than raise a word of protest at making the public sector workers pay for the financial crisis of the rich.
Compared with Rae Days, this is [b]at least[/b] as big a betrayal.
In some ways it may even be bigger. I think but please correct me if I'm wrong there were some unions that still supported the ONDP back in 1995. Now, I'm not sure who is still on Andrea's side. The OFL is pissed. That leaves OPSEU who were not vocal at the convention but some of its rank and file were. I would hope that ONDP inaction on the wage freeze issue would at least force the OFL & OPSEU to work together a little closer.
In a telling moment, Muclair's speech on Sunday was far more left wing than Horwath's was. The unions reps were far cheering far louder and giving Mulcair a hell of a lot more standing ovations than they gave to Horwath. It's precisely because of Horwath's background that she has to double down on labour more than Mulcair has to. Mulcair mentioned something about working with all of the NDP's traditional supporters actually. 6 months ago I would never have imagined any of this.