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Union and widow of worker killed on Royal Adelaide Hospital site call for new safety commissioner for SA, mandatory coronial inquests, and ban on government contracts
In a formal submission to the coronial inquest into the death of construction worker Jorge Castillo-Riffo, his widowed partner Pam Gurner-Hall has called for the establishment of a new, independent safety commissioner for South Australia and for coronial inquests into...
Boral company to pay paltry fine to CFMEU over threats to sack workers
A concreting subsidiary company of construction giant Boral, De Martin and Gasparini, has been ordered to pay a $30,000 fine to the CFMEU for breaching the Fair Work Act last year. The company threatened over 100 workers with redundancy in July 2017 after they voted...
Broken, chaotic Morrison Government predictably turns to union-bashing
Scott Morrison’s attack on the CFMEU today is an obvious attempt to distract from the chaos and division of his own Government, the CFMEU National Construction Secretary Dave Noonan said today. “When the Liberal Party is focused on good old-fashioned union-bashing,...