The shop assistants’ union led by right-wing powerbroker Joe De Bruyn faces a rank-and-file challenge to its ban on same-sex marriage, beginning in Brisbane tonight.
Shop Distributive & Allied Employees’ Association shop steward Duncan Hart, who works for Target, is organising a revolt against the union’s position.
He has called on members of the SDA, Australia’s union for retail and fast food workers, to attend the quarterly members’ meeting to raise the issue of same-sex marriage.
The move comes after Mr De Bruyn, the SDA’s national secretary, said the more Labor “panders” to the Greens, the more it will lose the middle ground. “There are no votes for Labor in the marginal electorates in the big metropolitan areas on the gay marriage issue,” he said. “We all know that marriage is between a man and a woman.”
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