When leaders speak of workers and their rights, hold them to it, CLC urges unions

Canada's largest labour organization is urging unions to hold politicians to account when they profess to champion the country's working class.

Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labour Congress, doesn't name names in a memo she sent Friday to the group's 50 affiliates, which include some of the country's largest unions, including the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

But it comes as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre travels the country, pitching his party as the right choice for the working class — credentials some are anxious to discredit.