Opinion
Why powerless workers are now a potent political force
The rise of hillbilly JD Vance and an Australian mega-union that is famous for all the wrong reasons have more in common than you might think.
Laura TingleColumnistThe Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) – of which we have been hearing so much in the past week and not in a good way – is the fifth-biggest union in the country.
Its history gives us a particular window into Australia’s economic, political and industrial landscape over the past 40 years which somehow pulls together threads of several of the big stories dominating the news this week.
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