Zed Seselja says union’s pre-recorded messages criticising Chinese free trade deal and exercise of overseas workers enjoy upset many residentsLiberal senator Zed Seselja has condemned the CFMEU construction union for phoning Canberra residents as part of a campaign against the Chinese free trade deal and the exercise of overseas workers.
Seselja said the CFMEU organised to enjoy a pre-recorded telephone message left for thousands of Canberra households on Tuesday night urging residents to call him approximately the free trade deal and its impact on local jobs.
Seselja has issued a statement accusing the union of trying to create a distraction from this week’s hearings involving the CFMEU at the royal commission into trade union corruption.
But he said it was backfiring as he had had many complaints approximately the union’s tactics.
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Source: theguardian.com