Ryan Bridge: Political wannabe's come from unions

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Nov 23, 2025 · 1m · transcript

Unions charge like wounded bulls for their services.

And they claim they're in it for the workers.

They care about workers' pay and conditions so much, they're worked their way up the union ranks to help those at the bottom.

But then once they get a bit of profile. They jump ship to the Labour party, their good mates.

Craif Rennie - flits between the CTU and Grant Robertson's office - has been selected to run in Wellington Bays.

Fleur Fitzsimons - who tried but failed to get elected for Labour. She's surely trying to weasel her way back on to a list.

Michael Wood - he wants back in.

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