Arguing against your own public position

Simon Collins at NZ Herald reports:

Disgraced former ' boss Alasdair Thompson has switched sides and is speaking up for raising the minimum wage to $18.40 an hour.

Mr Thompson, 66, has revealed he privately lobbied Prime Minister John Key in 2009 in support of a union campaign to raise the minimum from $12.50, where it was then, to $15 – even though publicly he opposed it as chief executive of the Employers and Manufacturers Association.

If was a member of I'd be incredibly angry that my membership fees were spent to fund a chief executive who went around privately trying to the position that was the policy of the organisation that employed him and paid his salary.

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