As state parliament considers a plan to keep bikies off building sites,Labor and Greens leaders have been quizzed about their response to the CFMEU revelations.
But the union’s national secretary,in an email to members of the construction division,forecast the Fair Work Commission would seek to put some branches into administration.
The Naked City columnist discusses the psychology of the underworld figures who have allegedly infiltrated one of the nation’s most powerful unions.
Victoria’s major road and rail projects mean we are building fewer houses,at greater expense. The construction union’s grip is affecting costs,efficiency,quality and the availability of skilled labour.
Dean Martin – a former Rebels president who was once in a relationship with Senator Lidia Thorpe – is to be sent to New Zealand after his visa was cancelled on character grounds.
Stronger fines,wider powers and a bipartisan mandate could produce a regulator with transformative possibilities.
Police allege the high-ranking official boasted to corrupt building firms that he could secure them lucrative jobs on construction projects financed by superannuation giant Cbus.
It is regretful that the ACTU has had to take steps to suspend the CFMEU,but it had no choice if it wanted to protect the interests of working people.
Jacinta Allan has vowed the government-appointed investigator will be able to speak to ministers – including herself – about claims against the CFMEU.
A thorough clean-out of John Setka’s cronies – the corrupt,the violent and all underworld figures – is needed.
The union speaks to Labor’s working-class voters more than any other. Now the party fears the CFMEU has a long memory.