Change Branch
Statement by John Setka
My speech at Tuesday’s rally has been deliberately taken out of context and exploited by the Liberals who only want to attack workers’ rights. The only thing that is actually under threat is construction workers’ lives which are under threat every day, yet ABCC...
ABCC Legal Win Will Put Lives at Risk
The full bench of the Federal Court today ruled unanimously in favour of an ABCC initiated appeal against a previous decision of the Federal Court regarding the primacy of the Victorian Occupational Health and Safety Act over the Fair Work Act. The question before the...
Detection of illegal asbestos imports triple, but still no prosecutions
The Australian Border Force has made 40 detections of products laced with deadly asbestos so far this year, a threefold increase on 2015-2016 figures. However, the construction firm Yuanda, who last year imported asbestos tainted building products from China including...
CFMEU officials fined retrospectively under “unjust industrial laws”
The Federal Court has today ruled that the CFMEU should be fined for holding a peaceful protest on the Perth Children’s Hospital construction site in 2013. One of the officials fined, CFMEU Construction Division Secretary, Dave Noonan said today that the fines should...