Diana Asmar will not be able to use branch funds to cover legal fees as she fights allegations she approved paying $2.7 million in members’ money to a printing service and got cash back.
A senior CFMEU official captured on camera allegedly making threats to kill an owner of a labour hire company won’t be allowed on worksites after a Fair Work Commission judgment.
Organised crime boss George Alex boasted the CFMEU deemed his firms “untouchable” on building sites because union officials needed their “kickers”,according to police surveillance.
Victoria’s building industry is facing a potential shutdown that would put more pressure on Big Build projects.
Tens of thousands of workers downed tools in Melbourne and Sydney to rally in support of the CFMEU again on Wednesday.
The CFMEU administrator has detailed how he will combat corruption in the building sector,revealing he would seek to force bikies out who hold influential roles in the troubled union.
“We’re hoping to win,but this is a political campaign,” former Queensland secretary Michael Ravbar told a large Brisbane rally on Tuesday.
The barrister tasked with investigating allegations against the CFMEU has released scathing findings about the union.
Appointed to help the administrator restore order to the union’s Victorian branch,Grahame McCulloch has instead resigned.
The administrator of the trouble-plagued CFMEU has nominated three directors to the $94 billion superannuation fund Cbus.
An investigation reveals the relationships that have vaulted companies with links to criminals into favoured positions on the nation’s building sites.