This is true, but I'm sure there are historical reasons for why union bureaucracies in North America grew that way.
Absolutely. I don't know about the Candian history, but in the U.S. it's largely because during the CIO upsurge the CP-aligned radicals consciously signed onto the New Deal popular front. In terms of union politics that meant subordination to John L. Lewis and incorporation into the state apparatus by way of the National Labor Relations Act. In Canada I suspect it may just be because so many of your most important unions are in fact U.S. unions.
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Absolutely. I don't know about the Candian history, but in the U.S. it's largely because during the CIO upsurge the CP-aligned radicals consciously signed onto the New Deal popular front. In terms of union politics that meant subordination to John L. Lewis and incorporation into the state apparatus by way of the National Labor Relations Act. In Canada I suspect it may just be because so many of your most important unions are in fact U.S. unions.
Yup.