OTTAWA - The five NDP leadership candidates all agree on the need to revitalize the party's grassroots and build up riding associations as the party recovers from its near-wipeout in the April election.

Beyond that, the contenders are offering significantly different platform pitches now that the first debate has come and gone.

Here are some of the ideas that are being put forward in the race for the NDP leadership.

Rob Ashton

Ashton, a dockworker for 30 years and a longshoreman union leader, is running a worker-focused campaign that proposes to make it easier to join a union and to take away the government's power to force a vote on an employer's contract offer.

He said an Ashton-led NDP would promise a job for anyone who wants one. Those jobs would be focused on home and public infr

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