The political protection racket the modern ALP is running for the toxic behaviour of the CFMEU, which would be condemned in any other setting, is disgraceful.
The Albanese government has given the thugs and law-breakers of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime and Energy Union the green light to unleash its militant bully-boy tactics on the nation’s construction workplaces with impunity.
This follows the FWO decision to reach a last-minute out-of-court settlement that dropped claims of physical and financial intimidation against the Queensland CFMEU in a long-running case originally brought by the ABCC. The CFMEU is taking advantage of Labor granting its union paymasters free rein to push its “no ticket, no start” campaign for compulsory union membership and kick non-union subcontractors off building sites.Employer groups warn that at a time when rising wages and building material costs has sent dozens of residential builders to the wall, the return to industrial anarchy on construction sites will blow out the cost to taxpayers of major public infrastructure projects.
The nation’s most notorious outlaw union is now seeking to strengthen its political hold over Labor. The thuggish secretary of the Victorian construction division John Setka – who was convicted for harassing his wife andfor denigrating domestic violence campaigner and former Australian of the Year Rosie Batty – is plotting a recruitment drive to sign up 1000 rank-and-file union members to the Labor Party to boost the CFMEU’s internal sway over Labor’s policy direction.
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