The leader of the politically powerful shop assistants’ union has dismissed a revolt by a group of members against the organisation’s opposition to same-sex marriage.

Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association national secretary and Labor national executive member Joe de Bruyn said he had never heard of a group called SDA Members for Equality that challenged the union’s policy in a submission to a Senate committee.

Mr de Bruyn said he believed the majority of the SDA’s 212,000 members supported the traditional definition of marriage.

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