Unions can be agents of economic change

Ed Miliband is making a strategic error in keeping a distance from the unions. Hilary Wainwright argues that within the labour movement lie the skills, know-how and creativity needed to discover economic alternatives and make change happen: http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/hilary-wainwright/workers-are-agents-of-economic-change-so-why-isnt-labour-listening-to-u