The former union boss also said he had left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “trembling” after an incident in a lift.
Former CFMEU boss John Setka has accused the federal government of betraying him in an alleged secret deal, claiming in a television interview that an agreement had been struck where his resignation would ensure the union was not put into administration.program on Sunday night, the controversial union figure alleged that former workplace relations minister Tony Burke agreed to the deal and said he had once left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “scared” after the two shared a lift.
But Setka said on Channel 7 that he had been told on the day of his resignation that the union would be “left alone” and not put under administration if he departed. Setka said he wasn’t proud of threatening text messages sent to his wife Emma Walters and that he had owned up to doing a “silly thing”.
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