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Major public sector union launches push for workforce-driven AI use

With administrative roles among those thought most at risk from the rise of artificial intelligence, Together is trying to get on the front foot in Queensland.

  • Matt Dennien

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NSW CFMEU chief Michael Crosby.

New CFMEU boss sets sights on housing amid cleanout and reset

The newly appointed boss of the NSW branch of the construction union will target government-funded apartment developments, while in Victoria factionalism is complicating a cleanout.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie.

Cross-border underworld links to be probed as CFMEU inquiry expands

“We’ve been asked to take further action,” Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie said from Parliament House. “I can announce today that we will.”

  • William Davis
(From left) John Khoury, Nick Maric, and Mick Gatto. Maric has for years had Khoury and his business partner Gatto on a retainer to deal with the CFMEU.

$110,000 payment for union peace: Developer’s deal in spotlight amid fresh calls to clean up industry

A deal between a gangland associate and a Gold Coast developer has been revealed amid a call for action on “crime and corruption” in the construction industry.

  • Nick McKenzie and David Marin-Guzman
Premier-elect David Crisafulli and his deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, speak to the media at Parliament House on the morning after October’s state election.

Can Queensland workers count on the LNP’s respect? This year they’ll find out

As negotiations between state employees and the first-year government ramp up, hints of the LNP’s previously slim industrial relations agenda are also starting to emerge.

  • Matt Dennien
Jiselle Hanna was elected secretary, and Mitch Vandewerdt-Holman assistant secretary, of the CPSU in Victoria.

The newly elected militants leading the public sector union

Public service workers bracing for thousands of job cuts have elected a new leadership at their union for the first time in 32 years. Jiselle Hanna doesn’t want to waste her unlikely success.

  • Rachel Eddie
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Specialist IVF nurses employed by one of the state’s largest fertility clinics are preparing to walk off the job on Wednesday afternoon.

IVF nurses walk off the job at Queensland clinics

Staff unhappy with the company’s pay offer also say it is refusing to give Queensland nurses the same allowances their interstate counterparts enjoy.

  • Courtney Kruk and Catherine Strohfeldt
Attorney-General Deb Frecklington, Premier David Crisafulli and Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie at the announcement of a commission of inquiry into the CFMEU on Sunday.

‘A line in the sand’: LNP announces ‘Queensland’s royal commission’ into CFMEU

“This is the spotlight needed to bring the CFMEU out of the shadows,” the Premier said on Sunday, days after a report alleged violence, intimidation and misogyny in the union.

  • Courtney Kruk
Members of the CFMEU protesting in Brisbane last month.

‘Shocked’ Labor calls in corruption watchdog over CFMEU report

Opposition Leader Steven Miles says Labor’s plan to investigate the union would be timely and cost-effective amid wider calls for a commission of inquiry.

  • William Davis
National Association of Women in Construction Queensland chapter president Emma McCaughey and Queensland Major Contractors Association chief executive Andrew Chapman, second from right, fronting media with government ministers on Friday.

Bleijie lays groundwork for deeper public inquiry into state CFMEU

Without saying where they should go, the Deputy Premier has urged Queenslanders to “prepare to come forward with their stories” about the union’s actions.

  • Matt Dennien

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