Change Branch
Slap on the wrist for Queensland subbies shows ABCC’s failure
A one-month ban on tendering for government work issued to one Queensland construction company and a formal warning issued to another that went into receivership after failing to pay subcontractors reveals just how toothless the Federal Government’s building...
Federal Budget shortchanges apprentices
Construction apprentices will be shortchanged by a Federal Budget that does nothing to improve declining apprenticeship completion rates and the low take up of apprentices on government jobs, warns the CFMEU National Construction Division. “This Budget is long...
Vale Benny Carslake, comrade and union stalwart
Benny Carslake has died this morning in Adelaide aged 74. Benny was one of the giants of the CFMMEU and the Australian trade union movement. Benny was a bricklayer who organised other bricklayers in housing as well as the commercial industry. He worked as an organiser...