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Michael Angwin

One big union is always less than the sum of its parts

Industrial relations doesn’t get stranger than the CFMEU demerger. But then again, a mega-amalgamation across disparate industries never made any sense.

Michael AngwinFormer IR adviser
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Every now and then, Australian industrial relations throws up an unexpected and counter-intuitive experience.

The CFMEU demerger story is one of those experiences.

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Michael Angwin is a former industrial relations adviser. He is author of 'Playing in the Twilight'
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