It is getting a little tiresome to read over and over that Mulcair is anti-union because he opposed the 25% labour carve-out. This idea has been refuted repeatedly on Babble but Topp's apologists keep resurrecting it with a pejorative spin.
I'm not at all saying that supporting OMOV makes one "anti-union" or even saying Mulcair is anti-union. I'm criticizing his crass opportunism in playing into the "too dominated by the unions" line of the MSM, which is one of the biggest right-wing smears agains the NDP.
It's an opinion shared by many New Democrats.