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Michele O'Neil said this isn't about expecting everyone to have the same opinion all of the time" but continued:

We're a diverse movement, and people have strong opinions, but it is at its core about who we are and what we stand for. And we don't walk away when things get tough, we face up to them. And angry individuals lashing out and blaming everyone except themselves doesn't get us through this.

We need to stay steady on what is in the interest of working people and what's in the interest of working people is good, clean, strong, effective unions with leaders who see their job as representing workers and their members, not acting in their own self-interest.

No ... I think that it's important that we realise that the union movement - the vast bulk of unions - want to stay part of the united union movement, and have made that really clear.

What I'm saying, Patricia, is we're talking to all of our unions all of the time ... I haven't had any other unions threaten to quit.