War on the streets: Everything to expect at CFMEU rally
Hundreds of CFMEU members are set to protest on Tuesday morning after the union was plunged into administration with a massive rally in Brisbane and one in Cairns.
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Hundreds of CFMEU members are set to protest on Tuesday morning after the union was plunged into administration with a massive rally in Brisbane and one in Cairns.
The militant CFMEU has launched an attack on the Federal government, threatening union revenge after it was plunged into administration, with mass protest rallies planned.
A coalition of unions representing more than 85,000 workers will tell their members to halt work on Victoria’s major infrastructure projects and join in a march.
Disgraced CFMEU heavyweight John Setka has shared details about a lift “incident” with Anthony Albanese that he believed left the Prime Minister “scared”.
Major new regulation on property developers isn’t a done deal the state government has asserted, amid peak body warnings it could increase costs and push out timelines on housing projects.
A major mining union has caused a stir on the eve of the Labor state conference with a daring push for the Palaszczuk government to declare metallurgical coal a critical mineral. AGREE? TAKE OUR POLL
A high-ranking Palaszczuk government bureaucrat has stepped down from his $600,000 a year job just months after the CFMEU stormed his department’s building, demanding he resign.
Premier Peter Malinauskas is moving to deploy state powers to block controversial union leader John Setka’s takeover of construction workers’ entitlements.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is investigating CFMEU tactics to shut surveyors out of building sites, amid reports of a turf war across Victoria’s Big Build.
Builders in SA would not have to pay the same fees as Victorians, they’ve been reassured, as the CFMEU pushes for a shift to an interstate workers entitlements scheme.
Union boss John Setka says a new CFMEU-mandatory redundancy fund is a “Rolls Royce’’ compared with the “rusted-out VH Holden’’ SA workers currently use.
As resource giants and powerful unions exchange fire in the brewing war over Same Job Same Pay laws, small and medium businesses that service the Bowen Basin are beginning to speak out.
Sources have defended CFMEU boss John Setka’s estranged wife, after fresh allegations surfaced about a plot to murder her husband.
Police claim Emma Walters schemed to lure her ex-husband, CFMEU boss John Setka, into a murder plot, allegedly telling a witness she had to “kill my children’s father to survive”.
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