[news] Extra-union organization launches in BC

[Resist!ca]

July 22, 2004 ; Project-X list BC’s labour movement has been crippled by a lack 
of vision, a lack of analysis, and bad internal and external politics. This was 
proved once again by the tragically unnecessary May 2 defeat of 43,000 
courageous and defiant health workers along with tens of thousands of other 
workers who were poised (or already striking) to give them effective support IN 
ACTION. But it wasn’t just a defeat. It was a sell-out by leaders committed to 
an inadequate and therefore failing strategy. It’s time to start changing our 
unions into fighting organizations that can meet the escalating attacks that 
have been coming our way for many years now. Doing that will require more than 
voting out one set of leaders and voting in another. This text intends to kick 
off the necessary discussion about what has been wrong for too long and what 
some real alternatives are.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/7/31/181544/316