CFMEU to face fresh crackdown
There’s been a fresh push to “clean up” the CFMEU’s construction division, just days after the national union watchdog launched court action.
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There’s been a fresh push to “clean up” the CFMEU’s construction division, just days after the national union watchdog launched court action.
CFMEU Qld secretary Michael Ravbar has trashed the Albanese government’s move to dismantle the union as “politically moronic”, claiming it would impact tens of thousands of workers.
Opposition Leader David Crisafulli has vowed to overhaul the CFMEU through a productivity commission as its second order of business behind crime, if elected in October.
Premier Steven Miles has explained why his government is at last taking a stand against the CFMEU saying the latest allegations “clearly speaks to the culture within the construction industry”.
UNION slush funds and Labor-aligned campaign groups have been given a secret exemption from Bill Shorten’s plans to axe investment income cash refunds.
BILL Shorten is working on a secret deal with the grubby CFMEU and the hard-core left to secure his leadership in return for giving the union spots in his federal Labor team.
IF the past week of politics has shown us anything, it’s that Michaelia Cash is the Wonder Woman of Turnbull’s Cabinet, and the CFMEU know it, Miranda Devine writes.
LABOR has hit out at the Coaltion’s anti-CFMEU campaign, with one MP describing the Turnbull government as a “cover band butchering the Abbott government classics”.
A SHOCKING, expletive-filled video has been released showing a union official threatening a site manager, and the reason for the leak is very political.
AS the government considers amendments to its construction industry bill, the CFMEU has claimed Malcolm Turnbull’s popularity drop is a direct result of ‘union bashing’.
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