Today
Directors revolt over government’s climate, IR and merger laws
Mandatory climate reporting, tougher merger laws and workplace legal changes have seen concerns over red tape soar.
- Patrick Durkin
Federal Police plan Parliament House walk-off amid pay dispute
The planned “extremely disruptive” industrial action is part of a pay dispute in which AFP personnel claim they are being lumped in with “desk job public servants”.
- Ronald Mizen
Yesterday
BHP forced to negotiate in new push to unionise Pilbara
Unions have forced BHP to the negotiating table and are demanding Rio Tinto do the same, a big breakthrough in their attempts to re-unionise the country’s biggest export industry after decades on the sidelines.
- Brad Thompson
This Month
TWU stands down Victorian boss over misconduct claims
The Victorian head of the Transport Workers Union and influential player in the state’s Labor Right faction has been stood down over claims of inappropriate behaviour.
- David Marin-Guzman
Threat to customer safety cited in call to end sparkie work bans
Endeavour Energy has launched legal action to stop six months of industrial action, as other power workers join to form a triple threat to major projects in NSW.
- David Marin-Guzman, Campbell Kwan and Angela Macdonald-Smith
High Court to test competition law on CFMEU ‘boycott’
The case will test the reach of competition laws on the CFMEU and builders when they kick non-union subcontractors from construction sites.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
CFMEU put Bandidos bikie on its governing board
Marty Albert was a union organiser on Victorian government construction projects and held a senior position in the John Setka-led branch of the CFMEU.
- David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
- Exclusive
- CFMEU
HSU calls on Diana Asmar to stand down over ‘ghost’ services probe
The Health Services Union wants its Victorian leader to stand aside after claims her branch spent more than $3 million for non-existent or “ghost” services.
- David Marin-Guzman and Nick McKenzie
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
CFMEU, health union probed over alleged millions spent on ‘ghost printing’
Victoria Police and the Fair Work Commission are investigating a potential multi-million dollar fraud and allegations a top official misspent members’ money.
- Nick McKenzie, Keiran Rooney, David Marin-Guzman and Ben Schneiders
McDonald’s hit with multi-employer bargaining push
The retail union is using Labor’s new multi-employer bargaining laws to force McDonald’s back to the negotiating table for its first collective agreement in more than a decade.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Opinion
Let the CFMEU purge itself of the criminal, corrupt, and violent
Rather than politicised building codes, the best way to clean up the law-breaking is to empower legitimate officials who understand that a union’s special legal status comes with moral responsibility.
- Updated
- Scott Riches
Getting witnesses to talk is tough in CFMEU case, court told
The judge in the union administration case has recused himself at the first hearing, as the Fair Work Commission’s lawyer warns it will take time to prepare the case.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
Calls grow for royal commission to clean up CFMEU
There are growing calls for the federal government to launch a royal commission into the CFMEU, with the Business Council of Australia warning that an administrator does not have the powers to properly investigate misconduct.
- Patrick Durkin and Gus McCubbing
Paul Keating’s prediction about Nine-Fairfax goes both ways
Also, the secondary effects of a strike at Nine Publishing land as others seek meetings; and who Seven West Media has hired to manage its crisis PR.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July
AFR, SMH, Age staff reach wage deal after five-day strike
Unionised staff at Nine Entertainment’s major mastheads voted to approve a new, three-year pay deal.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Exclusive
- Building Bad
Union sparkies spare Cbus-backed builds from work bans
Developments in western Sydney are running months behind schedule due to industrial action at Endeavour Energy. But two projects seem to be exempt.
- Campbell Kwan and David Marin-Guzman
AFR, SMH, The Age staff vote to strike on eve of Paris Olympics
From 11am Friday the bulk of the Nine Entertainment publishing workforce will walk off the job after rejecting the latest pay offer from management.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
- Analysis
- Building Bad
Lendlease’s convenient, lucrative alliance with the CFMEU
Allegations of wrongdoing on construction sites raise the question: Do big contractors enable and profit from union thuggery?
- Aaron Patrick
Dustin Martin’s ex-bikie uncle faces deportation in CFMEU crackdown
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil cancelled the visa of the former Rebels president – and Dustin Martin’s uncle – on character grounds following reports of underworld infiltration in the construction industry.
- David Marin-Guzman
Fear of CFMEU reprisals keeps building bosses silent
Major builders and developers say union power is driving up the cost of housing and infrastructure projects, and they don’t want more trouble on their sites.
- Michael Bleby, Nick Lenaghan and Larry Schlesinger
