A bug, a sacking and Adani: Accusations divide the maritime union | nickbonyhady
If the listening device found in a maritime union board room in Queensland was already there when Bob Carnegie was secretary, it might have heard him planning his principled but unpopular stand against the controversial Adani coal mine.
Bob Carnegie greets union supporters at the Brisbane Federal Court in 2013, where he was attending a hearing over his role in a picket line.In the late 1990s the MUA was perhaps the country's best known union as it battled Patrick Stevedores' attempts to replace unionised waterfront workers with ex-army strikebreakers, but last year it was in the news again when its Queensland branch bucked the wider union and took a stand against the Adani coal mine.
MUA Queensland state secretary Stephen Cumberlidge will not release a report into bugging at the union's headquarters.In a letter to members, written in response to the petitions and seen by this masthead, the union leadership said the office manager, 62-year-old Carol Conlon, was sacked because the union was trying to "run more efficiently". It also said she had received warnings about her behaviour towards other staff, which Ms Conlon's lawyer, Zosia Kilmartin, denied.
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