Congress of cheesed off unions could leave Labor scrambling for crumbs | Paul Karp

‘Potentially historic’ moment looms at the ACTU meeting, as aggrieved unions threaten to direct support elsewhere

Every three years the Australian Council of Trade Unions meets for its congress, a big decision-making gathering to set policies and strategies for the movement.

That is not what is happening in Canberra on Monday. Instead, a group of 80 union leaders from eight or nine unions extremely cheesed off about the construction union being placed into administration will plot their own way forward.

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