About 300 ABC workers held a snap stopwork meeting today to discuss an Australian Federal Police investigation into leaked documents, a union said today. At least 11 ABC staff are being questioned by federal police over their alleged involvement in leaks about staffing arrangements at the corporation. They are obviously concerned that some of their colleagues were directed to leave the building and attend interviews at the police station.
Emotions are high.
Mr Thomson said the staff unanimously passed a motion calling for the removal of Mr Shier as managing director. However, Mr Thomson said he did not think workers would take industrial action to push the issue at this stage. He earlier criticised the handling of the matter. The information which was allegedly leaked goes to how taxpayers dollars are being spent at the ABC, that information should be a matter for public record. ABC Head of Group Audit David Hodgkinson today confirmed a number of administration staff were being interviewed by federal police.