Matthew Gardiner (trade unionist)
Australian trde unionist
Matthew John Gardiner (born 16 May 1971) is an Australian former trade unionist. He was the Secretary of the Northern Territory Branch of United Voice and was also President of the Northern Territory Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
In 2015, he went to Syria to fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. He was detained upon his return to Australia but released without charge.
Career
Gardiner served in the Australian Army for around a decade and was deployed to Somalia in 1993 as a combat engineer.
In United Voice, he oversaw the growth of the branch to become the largest union in the Northern Territory. The union in the Northern Territory represents workers with occupations in many varied industries in the Northern Territory including miners, firefighters, prison officers, childcare workers, healthcare workers, cleaners, security guards and workers at Indigenous organisations. The union grew between 5-10% per annum under his term of office and he had been re-elected unopposed to continue his tenure till 2018. He served until January 2015.
Gardiner was President of the NT Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
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