Unions threaten to pull ALP funding over TPP

By Leith van Onselen

In the wake of the Electrical Trades Union and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union threatening to pull support from Labor at the next election after it agreed to support legislation to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union has also warned that it will reconsider financial support for Labor. From The AFR:

…the union movement remains “ropeable” over provisions in the regional free trade pact which would allow for the importation of workers…

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.