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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Congress of cheesed-off unions could leave Labor scrambling for crumbs

Protesters during a CFMEU rally in Melbourne
‘CFMEU and ETU donations are big bickies – and would leave a hole of a few million in the coffers for Labor to fill.’ Photograph: AAP

Every three years the Australian Council of Trade Unions meets for its congress, a big decision-making gathering to set policies and strategies for the movement.

That is not what is happening in Canberra on Monday. Instead, a group of 80 union leaders from eight or nine unions extremely cheesed off about the construction union being placed into administration will plot their own way forward.

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