ACTU leaders to go by year’s end after COVID, CFMEU saga
“I’m not anonymous, so I made sure I was spending a fair bit of time not in the state, and working out of Sydney.”“There’s no way that I imagined to be in that situation. But you know, I’ve got lots of friends that live around the country, and I thought, OK, well, time to go somewhere where the sun’s out more often.”In her first major interview as ACTU secretary in 2017, McManus defended the CFMEU for breaking “unfair” industrial laws. But in 2024, after this masthead revealed the CFMEU had been infiltrated by organised crime, McManus demanded an end to corruption in the union.
- ▪“I’m not anonymous, so I made sure I was spending a fair bit of time not in the state, and working out of Sydney.”“There’s no way that I imagined to be in that situation.
- ▪But you know, I’ve got lots of friends that live around the country, and I thought, OK, well, time to go somewhere where the sun’s out more often.”In her first major interview as ACTU secretary in 2017, McManus defended the CFMEU for breaki
- ▪But in 2024, after this masthead revealed the CFMEU had been infiltrated by organised crime, McManus demanded an end to corruption in the union.
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