CFMEU boss Dave Noonan slams lobbyist ‘cheap shots’
CFMEU boss Dave Noonan has slammed AiG CEO Innes Willox for criticising a new building industry pay deal.
CFMEU national construction secretary Dave Noonan has slammed Australian Industry Group boss Innes Willox for criticising a new building industry pay deal, strongly defending the doubling of employer payments to the worker entitlement fund Incolink.
Breaking the union’s silence over the agreement, Mr Noonan accused Mr Willox of “taking cheap shots from the cheap seats” after the business lobbyist criticised Master Builders for striking a deal with the union that increased Incolink payments from $80 to $160 a week. “The Ai Group is just a lobby group for some of the most aggressively anti-worker corporations in Australia,” he said. “They have little understanding of what goes on beyond the boardroom champagne and canapes of the biggest tax-avoiding companies in the country.”
He said Ai Group had done little to keep the industry operating during the pandemic, unlike Incolink which was overseeing the COVID-19 testing of tens thousands of workers.
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