Transport Workers Union bankrolled other union elections: Commission

By Anna Patty
Updated August 20 2014 - 7:08pm, first published 6:27pm
Transferred money to another union: Transport Workers Union national secretary, Tony Sheldon. Photo: Janie Barett
Transferred money to another union: Transport Workers Union national secretary, Tony Sheldon. Photo: Janie Barett
Ousted: Queensland TWU state secretary Hughie Williams. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Ousted: Queensland TWU state secretary Hughie Williams. Photo: Glenn Hunt

More than $320,000 from a slush fund linked to the powerful Transport Workers Union was used to bankroll the election of officials in other organisations including the troubled Health Services Union in NSW and help topple the leadership of its own Queensland branch, a royal commission has heard.

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