It’s the same old thing. The liberal-left, together with one special interest or another who all feed off each other, this time big multi-million-dollar labour unions, dictating the terms of our country while we get to suck it up and live with it.
The NDP/Liberal coalition bowed to pressure from big organized labour in order to stay in positions of power.
Organized labour pushed the deal aggressively, threatening to withdraw its support for the New Democrats if Mr. Layton favoured an early election.
Canadian Auto Workers leader Buzz Hargrove played a key role in the negotiations as a go-between and, in fact, delivered a forceful message at the 11th hour on Tuesday to Mr. Martin.
[…] The next day, Mr. Hargrove, who has a good relationship with both Labour Minister Joe Fontana and Mr. Layton, quietly entered the fray.
He had spoken with Mr. Fontana several times during the weekend. More significantly, he and a handful of other senior union leaders, including Ken Georgetti of the Canadian Labour Congress, met with Mr. Layton at a Toronto airport hotel on Monday afternoon.
[…] “We shared with him, quite forcefully, I would add, that the labour movement was not anxious to have an election,” Mr. Hargrove said yesterday.
[…] They told Mr. Layton they would not support him if he planned to side with the Conservatives and Bloc on an early election.
Mr. Layton got the message, and asked Mr. Hargrove to deliver one to the Prime Minister, whom the union leader was scheduled to meet the next day in Windsor.
“A little push and that was my role at the request of Jack Layton,” Mr. Hargrove said. “I said to him that Jack Layton is very unlikely to make a commitment beyond the budget in writing, but I said you have to trust that he is not going to support a non-confidence motion immediately after the budget. He knows he does not have the labour unions’ support for an election and we’re pretty key to that.”
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