Kevin Reynolds is the Western Australia

Western Australia

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n state secretary for the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union is Australia's main trade union in construction, forestry and furnishing products, mining and energy production....

 (CFMEU). Prior to this he was involved with the Builders Labourers Federation

Builders Labourers Federation

The Builders Labourers Federation is an Australian trade union organisation which existed from 1911 until 1972, and from 1976 until 1986, when it was permanently deregistered in various Australian States by the federal Labor government and some state governments of the time. This occurred in the...

 in the 1970s and 1980s where he formed an association with Norm Gallagher

Norm Gallagher

Norm Gallagher was a controversial Australian trade unionist, and Marxist-Leninist who led the militant Builders Labourers Federation as federal Secretary and as Victorian State Secretary....

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Reynolds today holds considerable influence in the centre-right faction of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 and is closely associated with former premier

Premier of Western Australia

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, Brian Burke

Brian Burke

Brian Thomas Burke was Labor premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1983 until his resignation on 25 February 1988...

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Personal life

Reynolds' partner is former Western Australian MLC

Western Australian Legislative Council

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, Shelley Archer

Shelley Archer

Shelley Frances Archer is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from May 2005, representing the Mining and Pastoral electoral region...

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Further reading

• Bartley, John. (1992) Kevin Reynolds - biography of BLF State Secretary The B.L., Mar. 1992, p. 25-27
• Broome Advertiser. (2005) Kevin Reynolds buys five-bedroom home in Broome. Broome advertiser, 27 Oct. 2005, p. 5
• Flint, John. (2000) After 25 years it's win or bust for big Kev. Sunday times
  The Sunday Times (Western Australia)
  The Sunday Times, owned by News Limited, is a tabloid Sunday newspaper printed in Perth and distributed throughout Western Australia.-History:...
  
  , 12 Nov. 2000
• Kelly, Jim. (1997) No rest for hard man of building. Sunday times (Perth, W.A.), 20 July 1997, p. 9
• Kennedy, Debra. (2004) A bark worse than his bite. Australian, 12 April 2004, p. 4
• Reynolds, Kevin. (1997) A rally to remember.(Protest rally against Third Wave Industrial reforms, 29 April 1997). W.A. construction worker, Winter 1997, p. 4-7

See also

• Solidarity Park
  Solidarity Park
  Solidarity Park is located opposite the Parliament House in Perth, Western Australia. In 1997 a 'Workers Embassy' was set up on some vacant land opposite the Parliament House during union protests of the Court Governments 'third wave' legislation for industrial relations...