Construction union leader John Setka has aggressively abused his wife Emma Walters in a taped phone conversation,which is now subject of a police complaint.
The unresolved split within the CFMMEU remains an open sore for the labour movement as it gears up for what could be an election year.
Recently resigned CFMMEU national secretary Michael O'Connor has won an appeal to stop John Setka and others from poaching members of his division.
One of the country’s most powerful union leaders will step down today as head of the CFMMEU after a war of attrition that has split the union.
Leaked tapes show that much of a national executive meeting of the CFMMEU on Friday was taken up with debate over a resolution on misogyny.
Leader of Victoria’s powerful construction union has targeted his comrades in the labour movement while making peace with employers he’s fought for decades.
The branch and the peak union council have had a poor relationship since last year,when John Setka was convicted for harassment.
Construction and mining union in danger of splitting with majority of national executive voting to call on national secretary Michael O’Connor to resign.
The branch is at odds with the country's peak union body over its role in negotiating a pay deal for fast food workers during the pandemic.
The Tasmanian senator is pushing for changes to the government's proposed union-busting legislation to make sure the law"attacks the bad eggs".
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has vowed to tackle"union thugs"with a renewed push to enact the government's union-busting bill.