The union has admitted it let women down in its response to violence as shocking examples of mistreatment emerge.
One was bashed by a bikie-linked health and safety representative on his lunch break from a government-funded project in an attack caught on camera.
This pattern draws in building companies, too, because even though these violent men are often shoehorned into their roles by their mates in the union, it is building companies, big and small, on government jobs that agreed to employ them in the pursuit of industrial peace and then chose to keep their crimes under wraps.involve Victoria’s huge Big Build infrastructure scheme, the issue doesn’t stop at state borders, according to insiders from several building unions.
“We can get tangled up in legal questions about who is legally responsible for protecting these women. But ultimately this is taxpayer money. So I think Victoria has a unique responsibility to be fronting up and making sure women on these sites are protected,” Hill said. “ a crack pipe with ice in it and blowing it in my face and locking the door of the store room,” said Munro, who worked in traffic management. “He was off his head. He was off his face.”When Bouras was sentenced to jail for stalking a woman he had only recently met in 2018, a judge described the man as a drug user with an extensive criminal record with convictions on drug and firearms offences, as well as a separate stalking offence years earlier against another woman who was his former partner.
The text messages reveal the employee of the government’s Big Build Southern Program Alliance, who remains working on rail level-crossing projects sent multiple messages to Munro, seeking to trade work opportunities for nude photos. The bashing was reported to Big Build subcontractors, but according to a secret recording of a senior union official responsible for women’s rights, Lisa Zanatta, the perpetrator’s relatives in the CFMEU were inadvertently tipped off and the victim was black-banned from the Big Build.
Quizzed about the comments, Zach Smith, the CFMEU national secretary, said the union had failed to adequately support Zanatta as she responded to cases but that he backed her efforts.
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