Labor blunts building watchdog as it speeds up IR changes
Relations between businesses and unions will be tested before the September jobs summit after the government expedited the promised decline of the construction industry watchdog and the building code it administers.
Employer and construction groups said the shock move would jeopardise the economic recovery by delaying and increasing the cost of vital infrastructure projects, and the opposition said that Labor had once again capitulated to its CFMEU paymasters.
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