In an email to union leaders entitled"Stop supporting traitors and dogs",the CFMEU’s Victorian secretary also unloads on the party and former ACTU secretary and federal minister Greg Combet.
Sent to ACTU secretary Sally McManus and senior figures in his own union,the Construction,Forestry,Maritime,Mining and Energy Union,at 5:23am on March 10,the email,leaked toThe Age,contains Mr Setka's reaction to the news that Mr Swan would be Labor’s right-faction candidate for president.
"I think it would be an absolute disgrace to put forward this piece of shit as president of the ALP,"he wrote.
"As the Federal Treasurer this maggot voted in caucus to keep the ABCC (Australian Building and Construction Commission) and the Fair Work Building Commission and other anti-worker legislation."
Mr Setka made a similar stinging critique of Mr Combet’s time in parliament,noting he now sat on industry super boards"earning good money from the same workers he helped f--- over".
Mr Setka,whose own large union branch is affiliated to Labor,said it was time for the union movement to hold"some of these traitors to account for their past actions".
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