Stories about the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
A new report into the scandal-plagued CFMEU has heard evidence former head John Setka signed off on a controversial $29,000 pay rise to a union boss who police say was a former bikie.
A Melbourne tattoo parlour has compared Pam the Bird to Banksy and says people are lining up to “share the movement” with free tattoos of the graffiti vandal’s famous cartoon tag.
A powerful union that’s been at loggerheads with the Labor Party is changing tack, asking LNP to back its new multimillion-dollar plan for the future.
A boat and a Ford utility were found well alight out the front of a union official’s home in the early hours of Monday morning.
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.
The CFMEU’s “toxic Victorian agenda” has infiltrated one of SA’s largest infrastructure projects, the new Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
Former union boss John Setka has lashed out at the Albanese government, threatening to “name and shame” those involved in “destroying” the Victorian branch of the CFMEU.
The amount of money John Setka was paid to walk away from the scandal-plagued construction union CFMEU has been revealed.
CFMEU workers have headed to the pub, been barred from the Star Casino and let expletives fly after a chaotic morning.
CFMEU-backed Victorian companies are setting up shop in SA and ‘locking’ local businesses out of work – even while the union is in administration, a local construction boss says.
A bombshell new investigation into union spending, kickbacks, and underworld links will examine whether Victoria’s “cycle of lawlessness” infected the South Australian branch of the CFMEU.
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