Labor responds quickly to union leader’s domestic violence claims

The union movement can’t demand “zero tolerance” for domestic violence and not take action against leaders involved in it.

• Crikey
• Bernard Keane

The labour movement and Labor’s federal parliamentary leadership have responded quickly to yesterday’s revelations of police accounts of domestic violence by the head of the New South Wales Postal & Telecommunications division of the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union of Australia, Jim Metcher.

Metcher has been kicked out of the Labor Party at the instigation of …

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