The CFMEU faces a fresh probe into the potential misuse of members’ funds to interfere in another union’s election.
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.
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.
The union speaks to Labor’s working-class voters more than any other. Now the party fears the CFMEU has a long memory.
When Faruk Orman aligned with ex-AFL goalsneak Kayne Pettifer to secure CFMEU support for a labour-hire firm,it was a case study in underworld figures monetising union backing.
Five years ago,the head of Australia’s union movement demanded Setka’s resignation. What happened next allowed him to not only survive,but thrive.
If the laws had been changed when they were found to be useless,perhaps we wouldn’t have so many bikies in the Big Build.
Leaked text messages reveal a network of Labor-linked women rallied around the fallen union leader over criminal harassment charges and his criticism of Rosie Batty’s domestic violence advocacy work.
Union officials have vowed to fight “to the ends of the earth” against federal government moves to appoint an administrator to oversee the scandal-plagued CFMEU.
Will Labor look after households or protect its friends in the union movement? One way to tell will be whether it forces tainted officials out the door.
The fallout from our investigation into the powerful construction union began on Friday,when long-time union boss John Setka resigned,before the first story had even been published.