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17 December 1999 |
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NewsMore New Faces at the New ACTU
Transport Workers Union federal assistant secretary Richard Marles is set to become the latest recruit to the New ACTU's leadership team filling the assistant secretary vacancy.
Marles will become one of only two assistant secretaries, down from the three, joining stalwart Bill Mansfield. This follows the departure of Tim Pallas - who is new Victorian Premier Steve Bracks' chief of staff - whose position will not be filled. It is understand Marles will have primary responsibility for legal and industrial issues, while Mansfield will retain his focus on community and international campaigning. Colleagues of Marles say he is a thoughtful and thorough operator, with the ability to get his mind around complex briefs and think strategically. "He is certainly approachable and somebody who can take the union movement forward," one said. The rise of Marles is the culmination turnaround in relations between the TWU and the ACTU. It was only four years ago that the TWU disaffiliated from the ACTU over a lack of consultation over strategic direction. A member of the Victorian Right's Centre Unity faction, Marles will also act as a balance to the likely Left-Left leadership ticket of Combet and presidential hopeful Sharan Burrow. ACTU secretary elect Greg Combet has also flagged the resources saved by not filling one of the Assistant Secretary positions will be channelled into an expanded communications department. Combet intends restructuring the ACTU into five operaitonal sections: secretariat, organising centre, wages and employment rights, communications and campaigns and international/community relations. "I want to make sure that in the future the ACTU is working to clearly articulated priorities within each of these key operational areas," Combet says.
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