The AFL has declared umpires boss Steve McBurney will retain his job amid calls from CFMEU Victoria boss John Setka for the former building watchdog to be sacked.
The AFL has vowed to stare down a threat from the CFMEU’s Victorian leader John Setka to disrupt the league’s construction projects if it did not sack its new umpires boss Steve McBurney.that McBurney, who was appointed to his AFL role in April, must be dumped because he was “anti-worker” and that the CFMEU would impede AFL projects unless the league did so. Setka said he had an “obligation to pursue anti-union, anti-worker f---ers like him and we will until the end of the earth.
“Steve McBurney umpired 401 games, including four AFL grand finals, he has been a long-time mentor to umpires at every level and has done an outstanding job since returning to the AFL to take up the role of head of officiating.” Setka also took aim at McBurney over umpires paying 50-metre penalties against players for questioning their decision, Setka not realising that McBurney did not write the rules.
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