Print text only Cancel The Australian Workers Union has made a dramatic intervention in Labor's Tasmanian election campaign, urging the party's national executive to overturn the preselection process, after a popular mayor was snubbed as a candidate. Key points: Acting national secretary for the AWU Misha Zelinsky says the party's administrative committee deliberately manipulated the process to deny Mr Winter preselection Mr Winter has expressed views characterised by the left faction as "anti-worker" The AWU has requested all existing preselection decisions be scrapped and a fairer process developed, or Mr Winter is preselected as a candidate for Franklin Mr Winter is a member of the party's right faction and has the support of previous Labor premiers Lara Giddings, David Bartlett and Paul Lennon.