At the end of 2016, let’s recap on the year that was.
A mass meeting of CFMEU members on 26 May at Festival Hall unanimously endorsed the new EBA.
In Brisbane, two construction workers have died a terrible death, crushed by a nine-tonne concrete panel.
A good-looking, soccer-loving charmer, my good friend Tony Medina worked tirelessly for two decades to safeguard workers against the hazards involved in the removal of asbestos - an area he himself had worked in before becoming a union official.
Within 24 hours of the Turnbull Government’s unveiling of the PaTH program designed to address youth unemployment, both the Prime Minister and Employment Minister Michaelia Cash were unable to answer mounting questions relating to the initiative, which Cash described as ‘exciting.’
In this election, Malcolm Turnbull has not spoken about workers’ safety – something we know is important to you.
You will be hearing a lot more about me. None of it will be about leading a union that is delivering premium wages and conditions for workers in the industry, about pioneering a progressive drugs policy, or about the money we raise on site for the Royal Children’s Hospital.
In late February, a man died while at work on the Royal Adelaide Hospital site in South Australia.
Late one Friday afternoon in mid November the Trade Union Royal Commission quietly released a statement saying I was cleared of all the allegations made by one of their ‘star’ witnesses, Andrew Zaf.
If anyone had any doubts about the true purpose of the Royal Commission, they need look no further than Heydon’s acceptance to speak at a Liberal Party fundraiser and the arrest of Johnny Lomax.