Police will have power to charge bikies and organised crime members who enter government worksites,while anti-association controls will be beefed up.
Greens firebrand Max Chandler-Mather infuriated the government by backing the union’s nationwide protests.
A sea of protesters marched through central Melbourne,expressed their disgust for federal Labor’s move to put the CFMEU into administration.
It’s not Anthony Albanese or Sally McManus who have brought the union to this crisis,it’s the previous leadership and their self-interest.
Michael Ravbar says the union faces “the biggest fight we’ve ever had” amid nationwide protests against the construction arm’s takeover.
The former secretary of the NSW CFMEU began his day with a court mention for bribery charges,and was a hero by lunchtime.
Read our coverage of the CFMEU rallies across the country on Tuesday,August 27.
Thousands of members of the scandal-plagued CFMEU and other unions have gathered in Sydney’s CBD to protest against the Commonwealth’s takeover.
Tens of thousands of construction workers will walk off the job on Tuesday to protest against the Commonwealth’s takeover of the construction union.
The former union boss also said he had left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese “trembling” after an incident in a lift.
Industry insiders claim a scaffolding firm with a chequered past and links to organised crime was still able to secure pivotal labour deals and promotion at the highest levels of the CFMEU.