HSU members allowed in to ACTU congress

Health Services Union members can’t vote at the ACTU’s annual conference but are attending in a show of “solidarity”, says ACTU president Ged Kearney says.

HSU delegates have lost their usual rights as the NSW government prepares to put the union into administration and federal MP Craig Thomson prepares to tell parliament how $500,000 of union funds was misused when he ran the union between 2002 and 2007.

“The HSU has been suspended from the ACTU so as such they can’t be delegates,” she told AAP on the sidelines of the ACTU congress.

“However, we understand many have registered as observers and are actually here with us in solidarity.

“They have no speaking rights and they have no voting rights as suspended members.”

Ms Kearney said security had not been instructed to keep HSU members out of the Sydney Convention Centre in Darling Harbour.

“Not to my knowledge, not at all,” she said.

Ms Kearney said the HSU corruption related to a small branch of a union, but conceded the scandal had put the union movement in a bad light.

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