One Labor minister’s office received so much abuse staff were told to stop taking phonecalls from the CFMEU.
An industrial relations manager was allegedly told: “There is a bullet with your name on it - we’re gonna get you”.
One AWU organiser had his backpack ripped from him and another was shoulder-charged into a road.
A man in a CFMEU t-shirt allegedly approached a female union activist’s son and verbally abused him.
The CFMEU administrator has sacked up to six organisers with more to come after an investigation accused the group’s former Queensland leadership of overseeing a regime that was “violent, cruel, misogynistic” and targeted family members as “fair game”.
The investigation by anti-corruption barrister Geoffrey Watson SC, released on Wednesday night, found the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union in Queensland deliberately inflicted physical, sexual, emotional and economic abuse on others – from rival unionists and Labor politicians to public servants, and even women and children.
