Former NDP leader Jagmeet Singh, who resigned after losing his seat on Monday. The NDP also lost official party status after failing to win the required 12 seats. Photo courtesy Jagmeet Singh/Facebook.

The federal election result was a disaster for the NDP, but it was also a catastrophe for the entire labour movement. There is something terribly wrong with the messaging that unions are delivering to their membership. Surely, on this day, the alarm bells must be going off in the Canadian Labour Congress and in every other labour federation across the country.

How can it be that Conservatives won every seat in the Hamilton-Windsor corridor—the industrial heartland of the nation?

Clearly, it is either a case of union members not listening to their union leadership at all levels of the movement, or that unions have lost the ability to communicate effectively with their own........

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