24 Results

Diana Asmar looks set to take out the bitterly-fought battle for secretary of the Victorian Health Services Unions No. 1 branch.

A legal stoush that threatened to delay the troubled HSU’s internal election has been resolved today.

Is ACT Libs leader making a tilt for federal politics? … backbencher Rudd making international waves … which power couple are to tie the knot in Massachusetts? …

A candidate for the Health Services Union has been struck off a list of nominations for looming elections. Diana Asmar will fight the decision in the Federal Court and could open a can of worms.

Yesterday the Prime Minister raised the vexed issue of union re-election funds used for the purposes of fighting contested union elections. There’s a long and sordid history.

The management of a major Melbourne hospital has been dragged into the battle for control of the remnants of the Health Services Union after a Kathy Jackson-rival was barred from campaigning at St Vincent’s Hospital.

With the Australian Workers’ Union’s 1994-95 factional machinations all over the news, Crikey thought it pertinent to cast an eye over some of its in-house journal’s archives.

A group of Kathy Jackson acolytes duelling for control of the Health Services Union’s No.3 branch could face court-imposed sanctions after a preliminary campaign meeting last week was referred to the union’s administrator.

The ghost of Kathy Jackson will continue to loom large over multiple branches of the Health Services Union as rival tickets square off to seize control of the edifice that has cast a pall over the Labor movement.

Whistleblowers don’t come any more flawed or fascinating than the National Secretary of the Health Services Union, Kathy Jackson, writes Matthew Knott.

Amid all the corruption claims engulfing the Health Services Union, one of the most surprising revelations has been the size of the pay packets of suspended president Michael Williamson and national secretary Kathy Jackson.

It will take months to remove accused embezzler Michael Williamson from his Health Services Union post even though the vast majority of the union’s national executive want him gone, reports Matthew Knott.

Health Services Union national secretary Kathy Jackson would suffer a massive defeat if the union’s members heeded her call for fresh elections to clean out its current leadership group.

More breathless revelations emerge about the internal workings of the Health Services Union, with the spotlight now fixed on national president Mike Williamson. History and recriminations run deep.

Fears are growing in labour movement circles that the NSW police probe into Craig Thomson could spell the end for his former union, as the house of cards that has let well-paid officials sup for decades from their members’ teat collapses.

Two newspapers, two stories, same source of conflict. Amazingly no-one has yet drawn the link between the bitter brawl that consumed the now defunct Victorian Health Services Union’s number 1 branch in 2009, the Craig Thomson fiasco and David Feeney’s fading bid to hold his seat in federal parliament.