Police have warned the CFMEU administrator of an imminent death threat,as the labour movement ruptures over the federal government’s efforts to stamp out criminality in the building industry.
Government officials will hold housing crisis talks with construction bosses on Wednesday as Fair Work continues to probe dozens of CFMEU officials.
Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus says she has changed her routines,lives between different locations and has taken police advice.
Ousted Western Australian nursing union boss Mark Olson has vowed not to contest the industrial watchdog ruling against him while calling for an end to the “soap opera-like” internal feud that led to his removal.
Staff at three Sydney hospitals have threatened to take industrial action unless the NSW government reverses job cuts they say will put patients at risk.
The damning claims about union secretary Diana Asmar and her close associates have been made by a senior union official.
An interim pay agreement between the Minns government and the NSW firefighters’ union is only a truce. But for a government with plenty of industrial headaches,it’s good news.
A senior CFMEU official captured on camera allegedly making threats to kill an owner of a labour hire company won’t be allowed on worksites after a Fair Work Commission judgment.
Marshall asked staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to gather sensitive information for him,and the union exerted unprecedented influence over the running of the fire service,report finds.
Organised crime boss George Alex boasted the CFMEU deemed his firms “untouchable” on building sites because union officials needed their “kickers”,according to police surveillance.
The state’s health system will be brought to a standstill for the second time this month after nurses voted to return to the picket line.