Sinister Overseas Influence in NZ

Do you remember Trevor Mallard maliciously inventing allegations about how sinister US interests were funding the National Party?

Well maybe Trevor should be looking closer to home. In today’s HOS Matt McCarten writes:

Our union, Unite, has sent three of our leading organisers to wealthier parts of the world to raise money from other trade unions for our upcoming campaign to win a union employment agreement for McDonald’s workers

Now some of these foreign trade unions are huge – worth hundreds of millions of dollars in assets.