Judge slams corruption as Fair Work Commission hits hurdles trying to gather the evidence it needs to put CFMEU into administration.
The CFMEU faces a fresh probe into the potential misuse of members’ funds to interfere in another union’s election.
Awkward timing for a big developer and its CFMEU dealings,while MPs in Spring Street duck and weave.
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.