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| Subject: Divisions erupt over OZschwitz union's purchase of luxury mansion Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:06 am | |
| WITH five bedrooms, three bathrooms, a butler's pantry and a ''luxurious'' in-ground pool, it is anything but a house for a battler.
But the $1,125,000 pad in Oyster Bay, Sydney, was bought with union money to house Allen Hicks, the assistant national secretary at the Electrical Trades Union, one of Australia's biggest blue collar unions.
The use of the union money to buy the house - which includes a French provincial kitchen and a spa bath - is the latest controversy to embroil the union movement after the Health Services Union scandals.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/divisions-erupt-over-unions-purchase-of-luxury-mansion-20120927-26nzo.html#ixzz27jobTi83 |
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