Business groups cancel council-of-war meeting over how to take on unions over penalty rates

By James Massola, Chief Political Correspondent
Updated March 1 2017 - 6:16pm, first published February 28 2017 - 6:36pm
Bill Shorten has written to every crossbencher to garner support for Labor's campaign against penalty rate cuts.
 Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Bill Shorten has written to every crossbencher to garner support for Labor's campaign against penalty rate cuts. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

Australia's biggest business and employer groups cancelled a high-powered phone hook-up planned for Tuesday night to discuss how to counter a Labor-union political campaign opposing cuts to Sunday penalty rates.

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