The union had merged with the CFMEU in 2018 but amid concerns over the behaviour of John Setka, it wanted out.
Two months earlier, the mining union members had voted overwhelmingly to leave the CFMEU because of Setka, and this time, the manufacturing division, which represented forestry and textile workers, wanted to follow suit.
“It’s clear many manufacturing division members – including workers in heavily feminised industries like textiles – do not feel properly represented by the CFMEU,” Burke said then. In one of his first acts as Labor leader, Anthony Albanese had Setka expelled from the Labor Party. That’s where it ended.
Yet, Burke, Allen and McManus would have us believe all this, and more, fell out of the sky in the past few days.
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