Union boss claims CFMEU waged five-year harassment campaign culminating in death threat

The militant CFMEU allegedly threatened the life of a powerful Queensland union boss in a five-year campaign of threats and harassment that included being followed in a car, and berated in public in ...
World Socialist Web Site

Workers and young people speak out against CFMEU administration at SEP (Australia) meeting

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) held a successful public meeting on Sunday, advancing an independent perspective for workers to fight Labor’s imposition of an administrator over the Construction, ...
World Socialist Web Site

Australian construction workers speak out against Labor government attack on CFMEU

The federal Labor government’s action in August, placing the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) under the quasi-dictatorial control of an ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

A turf war, tracking devices and intimidation — key takeaways from the second week of the Queensland CFMEU inquiry

"Me sitting here today probably makes me a bigger target." It was an extraordinary admission from the boss of one of Queensland's largest unions. Summoned to testify at a commission of inquiry into ...
Mirage News

CFMEU And Officials Penalised For Unlawful Conduct 23 December

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a total of $171,500 in penalties in court against the Construction, Forestry and Maritime ...
heraldsun.com.au

CFMEU accused of using death threats and violence in ruthless power push

But for years, almost no one spoke publicly about it – until Queensland’s landmark inquiry into the controversial union. This week, top female union leaders alleged that the CFMEU leveraged government ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Fair Work takes CFMEU, Inpex contractors to court; workers face $10,000 fines

Workers who allegedly went on strike at the Inpex gas project in Darwin could be fined more than $10,000 after being taken to court by the Fair Work Building and Construction agency. The national ...

Bedford’s unfair dismissal claim as CFMEU proposes administrator’s media ban

The union representing sacked Bedford workers has fired back at administrators after a critical consultation meeting was ...
Townsville Bulletin

Madona King: CFMEU and its leaders can’t survive, but the buck can’t stop there

Just imagine the one episode, aired this week, when it was revealed that a CFMEU delegate, who has since been charged with murder and torture, would drive organisers to interviews with corruption ...
The Conversation

Grattan on Friday: have we heard the CFMEU’s last hurrah or seen the start of its trench warfare?

Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

The CFMEU overhaul won’t do much to end the blokey culture that dominates Australian job sites

Natalie Galea consults to construction companies and the Victorian Government. She has received research funding from the NSW Government and the Australian Research Council. The Construction, Forestry ...