Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to rid our biggest construction union of ingrained criminal and corrupt conduct. We cannot afford to miss it.
Placing the construction division of the CFMEU into administration can only benefit our economy, construction companies and the construction workforce which deserves a reputable and strong union to represent it.The appointment of an administrator to clean up the CFMEU is an unavoidable response to a sad saga of failed regulation of workplace relations in the building and construction industry.
Court judgment after court judgment has piled up against a union where paying fines and ignoring judicial admonishments appear to be part of the business model. Just as the corporate sector and its regulators can have zero tolerance for criminal behaviour, the union movement must be in the same boat. The CFMEU’s construction division needs a clean slate and to start again.
In construction, it is almost inevitable that even with the CFMEU in administration, other strongly aligned unions on site will use the powers to cause maximum disruption in retaliation for its demise. Fifth, governments need to review their procurement rules that have wasted billions of dollars on infrastructure projects and allowed the CFMEU to flourish when it has been offered open chequebooks. The incentive is to drag projects out, not to finish them.
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