Powerful CFMEU figure stands down
A powerful figure in the NSW Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union has resigned effective immediately as he and his father face bribery allegations.
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Setka shows off new ink – and its message is far from subtle
Former CFMEU boss John Setka has surfaced, topless and with a new tattoo containing a highly pointed message.
Labor to force CFMEU into administration
Labor will move to force the CFMEU into administration to clean up the militant union, but has refused another significant measure.
Call for audit to check if CFMEU was favoured in state contracts
Victoria’s auditor general has been urged to undertake a statewide audit of every government contract to determine whether the militant CFMEU or its affiliates may have been favoured.
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Militant union racks up $10m in fines
FINES slapped on the CFMEU have smashed through the $10 million barrier as the Federal Court lashed out at the militant union and penalised it for a “deliberately orchestrated campaign” in Queensland.
School funding debate was shamefully distorted
ROGUE Catholics who threw their lot in with the thuggish CFMEU in a misinformation campaign on Gonski 2.0 did their own no favours, writes Miranda Devine.
Union bosses banned from construction sites
SENIOR officials from Victoria’s rogue construction union will not be allowed on building sites without being invited by management following a court ruling handed down on Friday.
CFMEU threatens building chaos
THE CFMEU has declared it will not follow the Coalition’s new building code, escalating an already bitter conflict.
Save our jobs: timber mill workers
THE Andrews Government will face ongoing protests from the union movement over the Heyfield mill’s looming closure following yesterday’s rally through Melbourne’s CBD.
Thousands in CBD penalty rates protest
THOUSANDS of unionists have brought the Brisbane CBD to a standstill massing to rally against penalty rates cuts, the Government’s industrial relations agenda and One Nation ‘selling out workers’.
Gutless union thugs achieved zip
TO THOSE who marched against penalty rates today: Your own union bosses have already traded away weekend penalty rates in enterprise bargaining deals. JOIN THE DEBATE
Union guilty of lying down on the job
A SERIES of stopwork meetings which resulted in as little as two hours’ work a day being performed on a Gold Coast Commonwealth Games site have been ruled unlawful.
Union sends Premier demanding letter
THE Victorian boss of construction union the CFMEU has written to Premier Daniel Andrews demanding he stop promoting work done by its industrial nemesis Grocon.
CFMEU blasts ‘head in sand’ ministers
THE head of a major Labor-aligned union says some Andrews Government ministers still have their “heads in the sand” about Hazelwood power station’s closure.
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