Fed: ACTU will not spend $70 million on IR campaign: Combet

AAP General News (Australia)
04-16-2007
Fed: ACTU will not spend $70 million on IR campaign: Combet

ACTU boss GREG COMBET has dismissed as absurd .. government claims unions will spend
70 million dollars attacking Work Choices ahead of the next election.

Workplace Relations Minister JOE HOCKEY says Labor and the unions plan to spend 100
million on their anti-Work Choices campaign .. with two-thirds of the money coming from
unions.

Mr COMBET's told ABC radio it's an absurd assertion .. and the ACTU doesn't have anywhere
near that sort of money.

He won't specify how much is in the kitty .. but for the last two years the ACTU's
levied each union member five dollars 50 a year .. to fight the federal government's workplace
laws.

AAP RTV kc/jmt

KEYWORD: WORKPLACE COMBET (CANBERRA)

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