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The HSUeast - the union at the centre of allegations that former official and MP Craig Thomson used members' funds to pay for prostitutes and to fund his federal election campaign - passed a motion on Tuesday banning Ms Jackson from addressing the HR ...

... Health Services Union's East branch has voted to ban the union's national secretary Kathy Jackson from speaking at the conservative industrial relations thinktank, the HR Nicholls Society. Ms Jackson, who has alleged corruption by former union head ...

At the mill Mr. Lynch became involved in the union, writing grievances. He was a hard worker. Ms. Smith said Mr. Lynch realized a strike at the mill in 1958 would be a long one, so he went out and got two jobs, one delivering milk and the other selling ...

says Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU) president Ged Kearney. Speaking on the first day of the ACTU's national congress in Sydney, Ms Kearney said the scandal deeply disturbed her and the alleged misuse of funds showed contempt for members.

The authorities in the Kharkov region, where Ms. Tymoshenko is imprisoned, have said there was no evidence that she had been beaten. The European Union's foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, urged the Ukrainian authorities to allow the European Union ...