Although all the
unions in Canada put together would not match the
financial size of any one of the country's 150 largest corporations, the Rand formula does provide
unions with stable funding to exercise a modicum of political and economic
clout in their encounters with companies and governments.
Given «how fragile the Labour party's finances are», with «very little assets» and «no cash», no wonder the
union bureaucracy thinks «we will have more
financial clout than before».