Union leader takes on top silk
CFMEU boss John Setka has engaged a high-priced barrister to defend him against blackmail charges.
CFMEU boss John Setka has engaged a high-priced barrister to defend him against blackmail charges.
Nigel Hadgkiss, director of the Fair Work Building and Construction Inspectorate, had intially decided to retire.
Two of Australia’s most powerful construction unionists have been charged with blackmail.
Victorian construction union boss John Setka and his deputy Shaun Reardon have been charged with blackmail.
A National Union of Workers’ branch has been cut loose by the state’s peak union body over credit card misuse.
The construction union has won a permanent injunction following a federal police raid on its ACT headquarters.
The royal commission taskforce has been ordered to return all material seized in the Canberra raid to the union.
The royal commissioner should reject defences to corruption claims by the AWU, lawyers for the inquiry say.
Three Queensland coal miners have contracted the deadly “black lung” disease, not seen here for almost half a century.
A former union boss has partly blamed his niece for spending union money to pay his personal bills.
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