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AWU's Wilson promised Thiess "one union", "no demarks"

Construction company Thiess Contractors Pty Limited began paying tens of thousands of dollars each quarter to a secret union slush fund, after AWU officials in WA assured the company the state's largest construction project would be a single-union site with no demarcation disputes, the Heydon Royal Commission heard today.

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