[news] Concet Properties refuses to come clean on Liberal Party donation scandal

[Resist!ca]

"Last May a major scandal erupted inside the British Columbia labour movement when it came to light that Concert Properties (a huge development corporation controlled by the trade union movement) had donated $16,665 to Gordon Campbell's Liberal Party.... What Concert's directors (union leaders!) seem to be saying.... is simply this: 'We will take the pension money of our members and donate it wherever we want. We will do this without seeking a mandate from our members, or even informing them that we are giving their money away to our enemies. We will join the P3 crusade to privatize public services, regardless of the democratically adopted positions of our unions in opposition to this privatization.  We will also pay ourselves whatever directors fees and perks we deem to be fit, and conceal this information from our membership. We are answerable to no one. We are accountable to no one.  And if you don't like it, you can lump it.'"

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/10/19/184310/60