A judge has criticised the belligerent and hostile behaviour of the union after it held up construction on a project for 6½ hours in the middle of the night.
The beleaguered CFMEU faced three different federal courts on Thursday over separate allegations of intimidation, bullying, abuse and death threats in Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.
Snaden fined the construction union and official Paul Tzimas a combined $168,000 after he and fellow official Ronnie Buckley climbed on top of a temporary scaffold deck, stopping construction giant John Holland for more than 6½ hours when installing five bridge beams in December 2019.
Snaden said that Tzimas displayed hostility towards WorkSafe inspector Quinton Drury when he did not share Tzimas’ assessment that the site was unsafe.Tzimas told Drury: “If you want to be a lapdog to John Holland and to get the works done, without addressing the issues, that’s up to you. In Western Australia, the maritime division faced prosecution from the Fair Work Ombudsman over allegations union members made death threats against workers who tried to cross a picket line in Fremantle.
The court was played CCTV footage of three concrete trucks being turned away at one worksite, which lead contractor CPB claimed came with a threat of the company being “blackballed in Queensland”.
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