This is the document that will make or break the Labor Party, as it heads towards the “unlosable” election due in 2019 or this year.
Crikey can reveal the new Centre Unity-Industrial Left agreement between the breakaway faction calling itself the Industrial Left (IL), led by the CFMEU and the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, and part of the Right regrouped as Centre Unity (CU), dominated by the “Mods” faction of Victorian upper-house member Adem Somyurek, and drawing in the Australian Workers’ Union, the Transport Workers Union and others.
The document is circulating among key factional and union players, with the claim that the new arrangement has, or will soon, sign up former Stability Pact heavies such as the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association and, the former “Shortcon” factional leadership (now simply the “Cons” and “led” by Richard Marles — Baldrick to Stephen Conroy’s Blackadder).
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