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Premier-elect David Crisafulli and his deputy, Jarrod Bleijie, speak to the media at Parliament House on the morning after October’s state election.

Can Queensland workers count on the LNP’s respect? This year they’ll find out

As negotiations between state employees and the first-year government ramp up, hints of the LNP’s previously slim industrial relations agenda are also starting to emerge.

  • Matt Dennien

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Jiselle Hanna was elected secretary, and Mitch Vandewerdt-Holman assistant secretary, of the CPSU in Victoria.

The newly elected militants leading the public sector union

Public service workers bracing for thousands of job cuts have elected a new leadership at their union for the first time in 32 years. Jiselle Hanna doesn’t want to waste her unlikely success.

  • Rachel Eddie
Specialist IVF nurses employed by one of the state’s largest fertility clinics are preparing to walk off the job on Wednesday afternoon.

IVF nurses walk off the job at Queensland clinics

Staff unhappy with the company’s pay offer also say it is refusing to give Queensland nurses the same allowances their interstate counterparts enjoy.

  • Courtney Kruk and Catherine Strohfeldt
Attorney-General Deb Frecklington, Premier David Crisafulli and Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie at the announcement of a commission of inquiry into the CFMEU on Sunday.

‘A line in the sand’: LNP announces ‘Queensland’s royal commission’ into CFMEU

“This is the spotlight needed to bring the CFMEU out of the shadows,” the Premier said on Sunday, days after a report alleged violence, intimidation and misogyny in the union.

  • Courtney Kruk
Members of the CFMEU protesting in Brisbane last month.

‘Shocked’ Labor calls in corruption watchdog over CFMEU report

Opposition Leader Steven Miles says Labor’s plan to investigate the union would be timely and cost-effective amid wider calls for a commission of inquiry.

  • William Davis
National Association of Women in Construction Queensland chapter president Emma McCaughey and Queensland Major Contractors Association chief executive Andrew Chapman, second from right, fronting media with government ministers on Friday.

Bleijie lays groundwork for deeper public inquiry into state CFMEU

Without saying where they should go, the Deputy Premier has urged Queenslanders to “prepare to come forward with their stories” about the union’s actions.

  • Matt Dennien
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Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie.

Bleijie seeks second ‘secret’ CFMEU report dismissed by ousted leaders

The Deputy Premier’s push for a redacted list of union officials was followed by an outright rejection of the report by the two alleged to have been responsible.

  • Matt Dennien
A CFMEU picket line outside the Cross River Rail site at Roma Street last year.

Women and kids victimised in Queensland CFMEU’s ‘culture of violence’

In an incident at a Cross River Rail site, an organiser from a rival union was forced into oncoming traffic and issued threats concerning his young family.

  • Rosanna Ryan
Queensland Nurses and Midwives Union (QNMU) speak outside the Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital in Herston as they take stage two protected industrial action over ongoing wage negotiations with the Queensland government.

Nurses refuse overtime, stop emptying bins as wages fight escalates

Queensland nurses and midwives say they are ready to walk off the job for the first time in more than 20 years.

  • Courtney Kruk
Star Brisbane casino workers have walked off the job on Friday.

Star workers walk off job in another blow for Brisbane casino

The union said its members had continued to show up while Star “blundered from disaster to disaster”, at times without the guarantee of pay at the end of the week.

  • Courtney Kruk

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