ACTU's Tim Lyons criticises royal commission into trade unions

By Anna Patty
Updated October 29 2014 - 7:13pm, first published 7:00pm
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons.  Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons. Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons.  Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons. Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons.  Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons. Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons.  Photo: Wayne Hawkins
"Long-standing antipathy": ACTU assistant secretary Tim Lyons. Photo: Wayne Hawkins

The royal commission into trade unions has failed to deliver the federal government's "sword that will cut both ways" and has treated suggestions of corporate misbehaviour with "incredulity", the peak union organisation says.

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