Stories about the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
The $94bn construction industry superannuation fund didn’t have proper processes to ensure that its ‘partnership’ payments to the CFMEU were in the best financial interest of members, according to Deloitte.
Cbus chair Wayne Swan says it has ‘highly commercial’ partnerships with unions but couldn’t say how much they’re worth, when asked about the under-fire super fund paying over $1m to the CFMEU.
Interim nod for the aviation partners to operate 28 weekly return flights between Doha and Aus cities. Meta warns on incoming social media ban. Cbus chair Wayne Swan says no ‘reserve’ being built for fine payments. ANZ forecasts May rate cut.
A former federal treasurer who now chairs Cbus Super has faced a hostile grilling over a raft of allegations directed at the fund.
Taxpayers are likely to be billed millions of dollars due to a union rally on Wednesday that will paralyse the CBD and bring large parts of the Big Build to a halt.
Union delegates have been accused of forcing workers on government building sites to work at a snail’s pace as the construction industry calls for the removal of the controversial BPIC policy.
One of Labor’s key allies has unloaded on the party, claiming that its treatment of the CFMEU is a ‘how to guide to destroy any trade union’.
The administrator appointed to run the Victorian branch of the scandal-plagued CFMEU in the wake of John Setka’s departure has suddenly resigned from the position.
Federal Workplace Minister Murray Watt has put construction companies on notice after a man was impaled in the neck by rusty steel at the taxpayer-funded $300m Centenary Bridge worksite.
The transparency of an inner-southeastern council has been called into question after it quietly installed a former CFMEU member as chief executive ahead of council elections.
The CFMEU has responded after a man suffered horrific injuries at a Centenary Bridge construction site in Brisbane’s west where he was impaled in the neck.
Allegations of bullying and intimidation have been levelled against the CFMEU by Cairns subcontractors who have claimed to be frozen out of work on big state government projects. But the union has hit back.
The financial watchdog is taking Michael O’Connor to court amid a bid to kick him off the board of industry fund First Super.
CBA hits all-time intraday high. Macquarie up 2.3pc on the day. First Super’s CFMEU-linked co-chair steps down after APRA action. Pacific Smiles CEO Andrew Vidler resigns.
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