Billen Ben said:
Do not forget the EC does not need the SMs permission to take action and that the SM is subordinate to the EC. If you have the support of the EC then the EC can take action if it decides it wants to.
The problem here seems to be that the EC wants to take action and the Strata Manager is blocking them and they don't know where to turn because the one person who is charged with helping them is doing the opposite.
If this strata Manager is a member of the Strata Community Australia, I would be writing to them asking what they are going to do about this.
I would also be taking action through Fair Trading to have this guy removed (although I'm not sure by what law that is possible).
What they are doing is quite clearly for the benefit of the person who brought them on board to the detriment of the people who pay their wages. In any other area of business life, that is called corruption but because it's strata it's seen as a 'victimless crime'. It's time someone in authority stepped in an shut this down.