Faceless men cash lost if Labor dumps Julia Gillard, threatens TWU

INFLUENTIAL union leader Tony Sheldon has threatened to withdraw $200,000 in political donations to the Labor Party if MPs dump Julia Gillard in favour of Kevin Rudd, as he joined fellow union bosses to reaffirm the labour movement's support for the Prime Minister.

Speaking before a meeting between Ms Gillard and union leaders at The Lodge in Canberra tonight, Mr Sheldon, the national secretary of the Transport Workers Union, has also warned that returning Mr Rudd to the prime ministership would be a "disaster" for the union movement.

Sources told The Australian that Mr Sheldon told a meeting of union leaders on Tuesday that a "small minority" of MPs - whom he described as "dickheads" - was continuing to push for Mr Rudd to return to the leadership.

Sources said Mr Sheldon had said Mr Rudd "cannot be trusted" to represent union members and would lose the election if he seized the leadership.

He warned that if Mr Rudd was elected leader by caucus, his union's national office and its state branches would refuse to make financial contributions to federal Labor's re-election campaign.


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Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 20^th, 2012 at 12:23pm:

Less poorly than Gillard and with no other options to choose from.