it is these kinds of absent priorities that pushed the unions away from the ndp, which had stopped caring about unions because they were too white, and even because they were too jewish. what does unionization have to do with immigration?
but the public service walked into a trap in doing this, as the liberals have begun to govern on the hard right again (as they always do) and the conservatives offer no way out. these are not blue collar union jobs; these are educated workers. they're not going to be swayed by social conservatism, or scared into thinking the socialists are out to eat their children.
it's not clear if the socialists or the jews are more likely to eat your children, at this point.
so, what do they do when they correctly walk away from the ndp for shifting it's priorities away from labour politics and then get stabbed in the back by the bourgeois capitalists for it? the ndp isn't running on this.
the answer is the ndp has to be running on this. this is canadian labour politics, and something the ndp can legislate on. the ndp cannot legislate on gaza, whatever you think of it.
and if the ndp will not run on fighting these cuts then the unions need to reorganize and leave the ndp behind, to follow in the footsteps of the social credit party to oblivion.