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Ot­to Car­ring­ton

The Bank­ing, In­sur­ance and Gen­er­al Work­ers’ Union (BIG­WU) is deny­ing claims that the union’s cen­tral ex­ec­u­tive has col­lapsed amid in­ter­nal lead­er­ship dis­putes.

In a mem­ber­ship no­tice, BIG­WU said it strong­ly re­ject­ed these as­ser­tions, de­scrib­ing them as “ma­li­cious lies” be­ing spread by five “dis­grun­tled se­nior mem­bers” in­tent on “mis­rep­re­sent­ing the union’s op­er­a­tions” and “un­der­min­ing its con­sti­tu­tion­al au­thor­i­ty.”