The uncivil war within the CFMEU
After decades of attacks, the CFMEU now faces the prospect of being split in half. Unionists have been left asking how it came to this.
It was around July last year that Michael O’Connor started to feel the heat.
As CFMEU national secretary and part of the ALP national executive, O'Connor had maintained a notable silence over union calls for controversial unionist John Setka to step down and resign from the ALP over his conviction for harassing his wife.
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